Nuns, DirectTV and Pay-per-View Movies

The first hint of a problem came in mid-February of this year when the January bill arrived. The nuns were being charged for Pay-Per-View movies, a service they had rarely used. What's more, the movies were not the sort the nuns would have watched, anyway. There were titles such as "Naked Desires" and "Naughty Newlyweds" and "Porn Star Blind Date."
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The customer representative suggested that somebody might be tapping into the nuns' service. Apparently, this can be done by remote control.

Huh??? How does that work? I thought the receivers could be password protected to avoid this kind of thing...Was a neighbor firing his remote in the direction of the Sisters' TV? Strange....

The link is here. And they got rid of the devil's black box...