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Originally Posted by FredIsMe
If they can crack DirecTV then they can crack the boxes.
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Actually, DirecTv, Dish, etc. can be considered one-way. Once you yank the phone line, they have no idea what the boxes are doing, so when they send down ECM's (electronic counter measures), they have to make an assumption on where the cards are at and hope their counter measures take out the code on the card that isn't supposed to be running and at the same time not screw any legit customers.
DTV also has been learning from mistakes and between their tactics the music industry adopted (sue everybody) and getting better smart carts that can't be glitched, there haven't been any rumblings of their card getting cracked. If it has, it's been kept under pretty tight wraps by those who did it.
Cable boxes on the other hand, if memory serves me correctly, roll on docsis and is definitely two way, so they can query the hardware and have better chances of finding anomalies. Not saying it isn't crackable, it maybe is, but many people are probably less likely to try it since most of the time, the box in question is associated with your name.
