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If my memory does not fail me, this was still being used in the late 90s/early 2000s. I remember buying a TV tuner (PCI?ISA?) card especially for the purpose of
by nicoco 4y ago
If my memory does not fail me, this was still being used in the late 90s/early 2000s. I remember buying a TV tuner (PCI?ISA?) card especially for the purpose of unscrambling Canal+ using tools downloaded online (I didn't have the first clue about cryptography back then).
- _notreallyme_ 4y agoThis was the nagravision encryption mentionned at the end of the article. Old "decodeur pirates" wouldn't work past 1995. They were standalone and didn't require a PC. After that, you had to use a tv card (mine was PCI) with a "compatible" chip like BT848 if memory serves. Some plugins for tv applications existed to bruteforce the key every month (deschtroumpfer used to be a keyword to find such plugin).
- nicoco 4y agoBT848 does ring a bell ^^
- ornornor 4y ago> deschtroumpfer Is it because the encrypted audio sounded like smurfs (schtroumpfs in English) talking?
- _notreallyme_ 4y agoAhah, I think it was to avoid the takedown of websites talking about it. The term is still in use to advertise CCcam and the like.
- 10729287 4y agoThe famous Miro pctv card, it was pci and the best way (probably the only one) to uncrypt Canal plus in the computer days.