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From: youngqd@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Dean Youngquist)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Electronic Bullet on Cable tv?
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Date: 26 Apr 91 00:53:37 GMT
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I just saw the last bit of a CNN story about an 'electronic bullet'.
This allegedly travels down the cable tv line to 'kill' any 'pirate'
converter/decoder boxes.  Does anyone know what this is ? (hoax?)
BTW I don't have a 'pirate box'.

Dean Youngquist                 youngqd@nyssa.cs.orst.edu
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