Just ask DirecTV. Having an easy to hack system is what made them the (former...Dish is beating them now I believe) #1 satellite TV provider in the US.
The thing is they *CAN* kill the hacked cards dead. They can do this effectively and quickly. Read into it and you'll find out. Several people have done this to their own cards...it can be done through software and they routinely detect hacked cards (getting "hashed") which normally results in your screen going blank or your card getting deactivated or looped. All of these can be fixed....why doesn't DTV use their kill routine you ask? Well the main theory is they let piracy continue until they believe their installed base is large enough that the number of people who WILL become paying customers is enough to push Dish Network out of business whenever DTV does finally stop piracy once and for all.
What if that car manufacturer had contracts with ALL the major car dealerships (the only ones major businesses can really by from because they need the support contracts and warranties) that only allowed them to sell their computers at a reasonable price if they ONLY sold their cars?
Also, these car dealerships have to sell this car manufacturers car because it's already got something like > 90% of the market and if they abrupbtly stopped selling them then the car dealerships would go out of business.
They don't rely on that to say you're lying. They CLEARLY know that it's not 100% accurate. They're simply going to use it to flag people as possibly liars then they're going to hit them with some harder questions. That is all. They don't throw out your claim because you failed their voice stress test.
Right, because no one knows about this (except people who read/.) and DNA evidence is the only thing that can link you to a crime (they didn't solve crimes 20 years ago...they just let everyone go).
To analyze the interconnections good documentation of the protocols is required. Granted Closed Source can be lacking in this department, but so can Open Source...for different reasons however.
No, you also were taking a potshot at MS programmers because of a mistake made by one person which can easily be made by a programmer who works on open source products.
Anyhow, calling someone an "open source" or "MS" programmer is stupid anyways. Unless you're doing contract work exclusively (and not always then even) you don't get to decide what you're going to program against. Not when you have bills to pay anyhow.
1) Boot a normal workstation with a floppy, cdrom or usb key. Do this on an admin workstation. You know the network admins give their personal accounts admin privs for convinience.
2) Get SAM
3) Crack SAM
4) Run one of those NT-Rootkits on the machine and setup a keylogger.
5) Use network admin's password to get the domain SAM.
6) Crack everyone's password.
There, network is fully comprimised. Even if they tell everyone to change their password, then at least one or two people (I bet it's closer to 50% though) will use the same password or a variation thereof.
No, you could mail it to them. Or mail them an international money order. Worried that it'll be inspected since it's sent to a suspicious address? Route it to a different country to someone else and have them send it.
Yes, glitching is what makes DTV smart card programmers different. They also have a flashable amtel but some standard smart card readers have that too I believe.
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No, that's Jay. =)
Who is Jamie and why did you email them? I don't see a Jamie associated anywhere with this article.
Just ask DirecTV. Having an easy to hack system is what made them the (former...Dish is beating them now I believe) #1 satellite TV provider in the US.
The thing is they *CAN* kill the hacked cards dead. They can do this effectively and quickly. Read into it and you'll find out. Several people have done this to their own cards...it can be done through software and they routinely detect hacked cards (getting "hashed") which normally results in your screen going blank or your card getting deactivated or looped. All of these can be fixed....why doesn't DTV use their kill routine you ask? Well the main theory is they let piracy continue until they believe their installed base is large enough that the number of people who WILL become paying customers is enough to push Dish Network out of business whenever DTV does finally stop piracy once and for all.
The kid should be punished though, don't get me wrong.
What if that car manufacturer had contracts with ALL the major car dealerships (the only ones major businesses can really by from because they need the support contracts and warranties) that only allowed them to sell their computers at a reasonable price if they ONLY sold their cars?
Also, these car dealerships have to sell this car manufacturers car because it's already got something like > 90% of the market and if they abrupbtly stopped selling them then the car dealerships would go out of business.
You're a troll....Right?
Did you even read the google article on Sony?
Did you even read the summary?
They don't rely on that to say you're lying. They CLEARLY know that it's not 100% accurate. They're simply going to use it to flag people as possibly liars then they're going to hit them with some harder questions. That is all. They don't throw out your claim because you failed their voice stress test.
Hmm...I remember hearing that in the first extortion letters they sent out but I wasn't aware they were still doing that. Damn they've got gall.
You don't. You bend over and let DTV take $3500 out of your rear.
EHHHHH Wrong answer. You do nothing to their servers to hack DTV. The ONLY way to hack DTV is by NOT EVER plugging up your phone line.
Look into this before you make a comment like that.
Yea, now instead of a hacker crashing your machine once a week, you get WinME to crash 3 times a day. Yippie!!!!!!
If you're using XP then you're a loser anyways. So deal with it.
(that was a joke, laugh).
I had two points to my comment. Apparently you only read one of them.
Right, because no one knows about this (except people who read /.) and DNA evidence is the only thing that can link you to a crime (they didn't solve crimes 20 years ago...they just let everyone go).
Sure they can sue them, but what will they get? The lawyers are going to walk away with everything.
I believe the NIV (New International Version) of the bible was translated recently (1965) and I'm sure would have only used the oldest sources.
Here's some more info
http://www.gospelcom.net/ibs/niv/background.php
Apology accepted. It's easy to get caught up in the anti-ms tornado here at /..
=)
To analyze the interconnections good documentation of the protocols is required. Granted Closed Source can be lacking in this department, but so can Open Source...for different reasons however.
No, you also were taking a potshot at MS programmers because of a mistake made by one person which can easily be made by a programmer who works on open source products.
Anyhow, calling someone an "open source" or "MS" programmer is stupid anyways. Unless you're doing contract work exclusively (and not always then even) you don't get to decide what you're going to program against. Not when you have bills to pay anyhow.
1) Boot a normal workstation with a floppy, cdrom or usb key. Do this on an admin workstation. You know the network admins give their personal accounts admin privs for convinience.
2) Get SAM
3) Crack SAM
4) Run one of those NT-Rootkits on the machine and setup a keylogger.
5) Use network admin's password to get the domain SAM.
6) Crack everyone's password.
There, network is fully comprimised. Even if they tell everyone to change their password, then at least one or two people (I bet it's closer to 50% though) will use the same password or a variation thereof.
No, you could mail it to them. Or mail them an international money order. Worried that it'll be inspected since it's sent to a suspicious address? Route it to a different country to someone else and have them send it.
Some people are doing similar to what you've mentioned now and a few cases have been won. I don't think any counter suits have been won yet though...
Yes, glitching is what makes DTV smart card programmers different. They also have a flashable amtel but some standard smart card readers have that too I believe.