My suggestion is for the author to learn the correct use of the word “hack”.
Back in the day, we used foil and tv wire to get free cable. You sometimes needed two tvs so one could pick up the sound while the other got you a fuzzy picture.
I was going to paste the same thing. Back in my college days we used foil to unscramble certain cable channels that were you had to “pay extra” for. Educational purposes only.