On the center of the front page of the latest Jaycar catalogue there is a warning about people misusing a Jaycar electronics kit to crack Foxtel to allow access to the full range of their digital channels.

The sly bit is way in which they’ve given this warning. They mention that their kit (mentioning kit #) allows access to Foxtel’s full range of services, that the information is freely available on the net, the price of their kits, and that they are experiencing an increase in sales of these kits.

They finish with ”... we wholeheartedly condemn this practice”.

Gee, I wonder if sales of those kits will continue to increase?

20060129 UPDATE

I’d not planned to make use of this so I’d not really followed it up, however there are several threads out there which highlight the fact that what Jaycar is advertising there comes with several large caveats, not least that it only works with certain older Foxtel box models (specifically pre-digital).