I am at an apartment complex, and there is a box in the stairwell. It's a type that has a cover that lifts up and out, and it looks like it has holes on two sides for a lock.
It looks like someone is trying to break into the box - the door is ajar and it looks most recently like someone was trying to take a crowbar to the box at the upper-left side hinge. The first time it was simply ajar, a Cox technician came over and fixed it, but this time it looks like someone really was working hard to get it open! I'm not even completely sure if it can be pried open without first removing the lock on the lower-right side.
My concerns aren't somebody tapping in to steal cable TV, but rather someone tapping in to steal internet connectivity - pretending to be another person's modem. (I believe that this is very difficult to do, but I don't have enough knowledge to rule it out as a possibility - I think that with the way cable modems work, it might not even be possible without physical access to my own modem.)
My understanding is that another technician will come out tomorrow to look at the box, but if that ultimately doesn't work, is there anyone I can contact at Cox coroporate or maybe a "GM" office who could look at doing something as simple as adding a second lock to the other side of the box which would make it impossible to open? (Without a blowtorch or angle grinder!)
What's odd too is that this isn't a "bad" apartment complex by any means, and the cable box itself is in a stairwell that requires a building key to get at. But it serves about 40 apartments.
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