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>It worked pretty well for DirecTV You're going to have to explain what you mean by that, is there some story of DirecTV successfully preventing people from an
by tga_d 11y ago
>It worked pretty well for DirecTV
You're going to have to explain what you mean by that, is there some story of DirecTV successfully preventing people from analyzing firmware?
- tptacek 11y agoYes, famously. Google "DirecTV black sunday". DirecTV successfully killed off the (huge) DirecTV piracy community, not just by frying the old hacked cards, but by deploying new cards that have mostly withstood more than a decade of intense analysis.
- apaprocki 11y agoAhhh memories. What started as a "write a byte now put the card in any box for TV" escalated into complicated custom electronics, MITMing the stream, with a computer required to sit in the middle to lend its processing power. All the while, some unsung heroes out of the Matrix able to look in realtime at the DV-S stream flowing across their screen, able to spot a new Agent Smith barreling at the card and alert the world via IRC.