Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
by ajb on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:50AM
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A while back (probably 10+ years) I read a cool article on the cat and mouse game between cable TV hackers and the security team at one of the big US cable TV companies. At a certain point, the hackers had the upper hand and had broken the security of the smart cards which were in use. But the security team turned it round by delivering a sequence of small, seemingly innocuous OTA updates to the card software, locking hackers out of the population of valid cards. Or something like that. Does anyone remember this article/event?
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Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
by ayende on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:17AM
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That was DirectTV, I think. See:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/01/01/25/1343218/directv...
Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
by jaywalk on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:14AM
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This event was what got me interested in satellite TV hacking. Fun times back then.
Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
by ajb on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:54AM
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That was it! Thank you.
Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
by FreezingKeeper on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:58AM
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How about the time when one pay TV company (Sky, owned by News Corp at the time) was said to have hacked a rival and released the hack on the internet for pirates to use?