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derbyc316
21-02-2007, 02:36 PM
I heard on Radio One that people are stealing Ford Car radios to get free sky. Sounds like a crock of **** but anyone know anything about it? What the principles behind it are?

notanotherone
21-02-2007, 03:11 PM
ill just say this its ......................crap..................... an urban myth

ticticboom
21-02-2007, 03:36 PM
dam now u tell me ave just broke in2 4 ford cars dam am in big trouble

kamrez224
21-02-2007, 03:49 PM
u pay ?1.99 on ebay and u will get the details of watching pay per view channels

theayatollah
27-02-2007, 03:48 AM
u pay ?1.99 on ebay and u will get the details of watching pay per view channels

Yeah but does this actually work... when I tried it it just seemed to be a lot of unplugging the phone cable and button pressing, seemed like a crock of really, and never got round to checking my bill either.

scottnewlove
27-02-2007, 05:00 PM
yes it just makes your phone line enegaged so the easy way is to dial someone and order than pull the wire out of the sky then hang up the phone ok

y2krog2000
27-02-2007, 05:36 PM
I heard on Radio One that people are stealing Ford Car radios to get free sky. Sounds like a crock of **** but anyone know anything about it? What the principles behind it are?
Does it only work if you steal a ford radio or will it still work if you have a ford with a radio in it?

Timoweb
27-02-2007, 05:45 PM
Do you realy want to know the answer to the this crap, well read then;

Claim: Mistaken belief that radios in Ford automobiles contain chips that pick up satellite TV spurs car vandals.

Status: True.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2006]

Just had passed on by someone that their security guy at work told them to warn drivers of Ford cars to be extra careful about security at the moment. The story goes that there's a chip in standard Ford car stereos that can be used to modify set-top boxes (The boxes used to receive digital TV here in the UK) so they can get premium channels for free. Hence, nefarious characters have been targeting Ford cars to steal their radios at the moment.

Origins: Sometimes the rumors of the day trap not only the innocent, but the ill-intentioned Car radio as well.

In November 2006, a crime wave targeting car radio receivers hit Wales. Over the course of three days, 205 cars were broken into, an increase in that form of criminal activity to almost four times its usual rate. Ninety-five percent of the cars so vandalized were Fords, leading police to conclude radio thieves were acting on a rumor that microchips in that manufacturer's car radios could be fitted to satellite receivers and digiboxes to gain free access to satellite TV channels.

The chips of course don't work that way, and there is no free Sky TV to be had through cannibalizing car radios purloined from Fords. Car radio thieves had fallen for a false rumor.

South Wales Chief Superintendent Bob Evans said: "We have spoken to Ford and the satellite providers and conclude this is nothing more than an urban myth. "I can only stress that the microchip cannot be used in this way."

Paul
Wilson, from Ford, said: "There is nothing in the radios that is compatible with a digibox so these people are wasting their time."

The rumor had appeared in other parts of the UK prior to the November 2006 outbreak in Wales. In May 2006, the rumor surfaced in Coventry, prompting police there to issue a press release about the belief.

In January 2007, the London borough of Havering experienced a car break-in spree apparently tied to the rumor. Over the course of three nights, 22 Fords were broken into. Said Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Sultan Taylor: "We have had a big increase in the number of Ford vehicles broken into and we are sure it is because local thieves have got wind of this ridiculous notion that they can get satellite TV from car radio chips.

One possible explanation for the rumor involves an announcement from Ford coupled with the similarity of name of two entities. In 2004, Ford announced that for its 2006 and 2007 model years it would be offering SIRIUS Satellite Radio as a factory-installed option in up to 20 Ford and Lincoln Mercury vehicle lines. That is not to say every Ford built in those years houses a satellite radio-ready receiver, only that those buying Fords in 2006 and 2007 could, by paying extra, have such units included in their vehicles.

In the UK programming offered by digital satellite television provider Sky Digital is accessed via a "digibox," a receiver that decodes the digital signal and feeds it to the television. Sky also offers its customers digital radio channels, and hence someone who misunderstood the car manufacturer's news to mean that all 2006 and 2007 Fords have car stereos that pick up satellite radio might make the jump to mistakenly assuming "radios in Fords contain the chip needed to pick up [Sky] digital TV for free."

Barbara "ford focus" Mikkelson

krazylegz
27-02-2007, 08:29 PM
thanks tw for clearing this up.

as already stated many times before this is a load of rubbish as NDS is not hacked,it's as simple as that sly is not hacked

bassy777
28-02-2007, 03:13 AM
you need to use the car battery with the ford radio when you are hooking it up to the sky box:9: