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A comment on MitM'ing my STB (2016).

Re:MitM'ing my STB (2016) by sofaofthedamned on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:29AM (#19959301)
This is a bit content light, and there's no MITM of any content. Anything valuable will be secured with a secret client key. All this will do is show encrypted data flowing as well as some signalling in the clear.
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Re:MitM'ing my STB (2016) by Tepix on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:14AM (#19960495)
He's MITM'ing the signalling. Guess it worked?
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Re:MitM'ing my STB (2016) by Scoundreller on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:16AM (#19961202)
It seems like this system doesn’t/didn’t encrypt 1 channel differently from any other.
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Re:MitM'ing my STB (2016) by jandrese on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:04PM (#19965175)
It looks like he's tweaking it so when he switches to QVC or something it rewrites the channel ID to HBO and the server hands the content out without any further checks.

This guy is totally busted if his cable company ever runs an audit of their logs.

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