Funny thing about directv is that because they allowed for many manufacturers to build receivers, directv had little control over the receiver firmware, so thes

Funny thing about directv is that because they allowed for many manufacturers to build receivers, directv had little control over the receiver firmware, so these counter-counter measures weren’t necessary at the receiver level. Other providers that rolled out their own receivers had high control over the receiver firmware and once users figured out how to protect their cards, the receivers became an effective attack vector for the lazy. But that’s where a lot of the public knowledge about JTAGs really started coming to light. Awfully nice of them to put in a cutout at the bottom of the receiver.