Another thought that ocurred to me reading this article is that
the incentives of the people involved aren't exactly what they
appear to be. People who make "pirate boxed" really don't
want to develop some device that'll give people free satellite
TV forever; they're much better off with things
On 1 May 2002 at 18:19, Peter Wayner wrote:
> At 3:12 PM -0700 5/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Seems to me that oneof the keys to permanently unlocking sat TV is
> >to do away with the vendor's receiver. From my novice perspective,
> >it seems many or most of the attacks against pirate dev
At 3:12 PM -0700 5/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Seems to me that oneof the keys to permanently unlocking sat TV is
>to do away with the vendor's receiver. From my novice perspective,
>it seems many or most of the attacks against pirate devices are
>based on the assumption that the pirate mu
Seems to me that oneof the keys to permanently unlocking sat TV is to do away with the
vendor's receiver. From my novice perspective, it seems many or most of the attacks
against pirate devices are based on the assumption that the pirate must still have a
set-top box which is still, indirectly
Last year I wrote a long piece about people hacking DirecTV satellite
signals. Now I'm releasing it for free to the web with a couple of
embedded ads for my latest books. If you're interested in a few
clever people who find ways to defeat some of the best security
systems available, you might
