Satellite Cards just got whacked!
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Sorry, it is 2 pieces, 1 is the actual DSS Access Card, the other thing (called boss) is a board which has an amphenol socket on it, which you put the virgin card in, and then you slide the boss unit into the card soket on your dss box. The boss has a flashable EEPROM chip on it, so you can update it, and it doesnt allow anything through to subscribe the DSS card. Kind of looks like the card condom here: http://www.dsshack.com/card_condom.html
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I found a front and back pic.
The signaltech thing on the bottom of the front of the card in the picture is not on my card. These are pics I grabbed off the web.
[This message has been edited by NXCobra (edited 01-22-2001).]
The signaltech thing on the bottom of the front of the card in the picture is not on my card. These are pics I grabbed off the web.
[This message has been edited by NXCobra (edited 01-22-2001).]
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Bulldog, Triple H got his a$$ kicked by stone cold, and then hen returned the favor to Stone Cold while he was entering the ring. But he still won the royal rumble. I got the end of it just as I was getting ready to go out. 
WWF is lot meaner now. Lots of blood tonight. Lots of "puppies" also.
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Sorry to hear about your H card going down. sounds like there going tobe down for awhile.
Although my emulator is working just fine!!!!
Direct tv ecm'ed cloned cards, and wrote to an area of the card that can only be wrote to once. Some people are saying that they can be unlooped, but you have to target specific areas of the card! all we need is a freeware hu hack!
Although my emulator is working just fine!!!!
Direct tv ecm'ed cloned cards, and wrote to an area of the card that can only be wrote to once. Some people are saying that they can be unlooped, but you have to target specific areas of the card! all we need is a freeware hu hack!
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Not to mention that the HONKY TONK man was in on the Royal Rumble, along with the "Big Show" making his return...and of course, Drew Carey even made a appearence as one of the 30 contestants in the rumble..LOL 
Tonight should be very interesting
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Bulldog, I got rid of the card last night. I was in the dss chat rooms and everyone was talking about how the H cards were so easily susceptible to ECM's and how they will soon be worthless ice scrapers with everyone going to the HU card. So I didnt want to hesitate and get burned which is usually the case with me, so I put it on EBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...tem=1209632336
with a high buy it now price. Well someone bought it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...tem=1209632336
with a high buy it now price. Well someone bought it.
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Bulldog, I was going to watch the royal rumble last night and mine got wacked about two minutes before it was going to come on, I think thats why they did it last night. They new allot of people where going to be watching with the rumble on.
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WTF.COM is this thread doing here??? I thought I was on PD for a minute <~ GRINS ~> (very few will know what I mean)
Anyone not wanting there "H" DSS cards email me and I'll be happy to turn that plastic into good cash..
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Anyone not wanting there "H" DSS cards email me and I'll be happy to turn that plastic into good cash..
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Interesting info from slashdot:
4 or more years ago DirecTV launched its service. DirecTV was one of the
very first large distributors of smart card technology in their product. So much so, that
Hughes corp. (the primary owner of DirecTV) decided to create their own smart cards.
Each receiver has a smart card located inside that is keyed to the subscriber, and
actively participates in the decryption of the digital satellite video stream. However, considering Hughes
decided on this technology when it was virtually in its infancy, they made several mistakes. The hacker
community caught onto these mistakes, and there has been a war between DirecTV and the hacking
community ever since. For the past two or more years, it was apparent the hacking community would win
this war, completely opening the DirecTV signal. However, over the last 6 months, DirecTV has fought
back with a vengeance, displaying the most extensive technical campaign against the hacking of their
product..." Click through for the rest of the story.
"Allow me to give you some background.
"One of the original smart cards, entitled 'H' cards for Hughes, had design flaws which were discovered
by the hacking community. These flaws enabled the extremely bright hacking community to reverse
engineer their design, and to create smart card writers. The writers enabled the hackers to read and write
to the smart card, and allowed them to change their subscription model to receive all the channels. Since
the technology of satellite television is broadcast only, meaning you cannot send information TO the
satellite, the system requires a phone line to communicate with DirecTV. The hackers could re-write their
smart cards and receive all the channels, and unplug their phone lines leaving no way for DirecTV to
track the abuse. DirecTV had built a mechanism into their system that allowed the updating of these
smart cards through the satellite stream. Every receiver was designed to 'apply' these updates when it
received them to the cards. DirecTV applied updates that looked for hacked cards, and then attempted to
destroy the cards by writing updates that disabled them. The hacking community replied with yet another
piece of hardware, an 'unlooper,' that repaired the damage. The hacker community then designed
software that trojanized the card, and removed the capability of the receivers to update the card. DirecTV
could only send updates to the cards, and then require the updates be present in order to receive video.
Each month or so, DirecTV would send an update. 10 or 15 minutes later, the hacking community would
update the software to work around the latest fixes. This was the status quo for almost two years. 'H'
cards regularly sold on eBay for over $400.00. It was apparent that DirecTV had lost this battle,
relegating DirecTV to hunting down Web sites that discussed their product and using their legal team to
sue and intimidate them into submission.
"Four months ago, however, DirecTV began sending several updates at a time, breaking their pattern.
While the hacking community was able to bypass these batches, they did not understand the reasoning
behind them. Never before had DirecTV sent 4 and 5 updates at a time, yet alone send these batches
every week. Many postulated they were simply trying to annoy the community into submission. The
updates contained useless pieces of computer code that were then required to be present on the card in
order to receive the transmission. The hacking community accommodated this in their software, applying
these updates in their hacking software. Not until the final batch of updates were sent through the
stream did the hacking community understand DirecTV.
4 or more years ago DirecTV launched its service. DirecTV was one of the
very first large distributors of smart card technology in their product. So much so, that
Hughes corp. (the primary owner of DirecTV) decided to create their own smart cards.
Each receiver has a smart card located inside that is keyed to the subscriber, and
actively participates in the decryption of the digital satellite video stream. However, considering Hughes
decided on this technology when it was virtually in its infancy, they made several mistakes. The hacker
community caught onto these mistakes, and there has been a war between DirecTV and the hacking
community ever since. For the past two or more years, it was apparent the hacking community would win
this war, completely opening the DirecTV signal. However, over the last 6 months, DirecTV has fought
back with a vengeance, displaying the most extensive technical campaign against the hacking of their
product..." Click through for the rest of the story.
"Allow me to give you some background.
"One of the original smart cards, entitled 'H' cards for Hughes, had design flaws which were discovered
by the hacking community. These flaws enabled the extremely bright hacking community to reverse
engineer their design, and to create smart card writers. The writers enabled the hackers to read and write
to the smart card, and allowed them to change their subscription model to receive all the channels. Since
the technology of satellite television is broadcast only, meaning you cannot send information TO the
satellite, the system requires a phone line to communicate with DirecTV. The hackers could re-write their
smart cards and receive all the channels, and unplug their phone lines leaving no way for DirecTV to
track the abuse. DirecTV had built a mechanism into their system that allowed the updating of these
smart cards through the satellite stream. Every receiver was designed to 'apply' these updates when it
received them to the cards. DirecTV applied updates that looked for hacked cards, and then attempted to
destroy the cards by writing updates that disabled them. The hacking community replied with yet another
piece of hardware, an 'unlooper,' that repaired the damage. The hacker community then designed
software that trojanized the card, and removed the capability of the receivers to update the card. DirecTV
could only send updates to the cards, and then require the updates be present in order to receive video.
Each month or so, DirecTV would send an update. 10 or 15 minutes later, the hacking community would
update the software to work around the latest fixes. This was the status quo for almost two years. 'H'
cards regularly sold on eBay for over $400.00. It was apparent that DirecTV had lost this battle,
relegating DirecTV to hunting down Web sites that discussed their product and using their legal team to
sue and intimidate them into submission.
"Four months ago, however, DirecTV began sending several updates at a time, breaking their pattern.
While the hacking community was able to bypass these batches, they did not understand the reasoning
behind them. Never before had DirecTV sent 4 and 5 updates at a time, yet alone send these batches
every week. Many postulated they were simply trying to annoy the community into submission. The
updates contained useless pieces of computer code that were then required to be present on the card in
order to receive the transmission. The hacking community accommodated this in their software, applying
these updates in their hacking software. Not until the final batch of updates were sent through the
stream did the hacking community understand DirecTV.
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Like a final piece of a puzzle allowing the entire
picture, the final updates made all the useless bits of computer code join into a dynamic program,
existing on the card itself. This dynamic program changed the entire way the older technology worked. In
a masterful, planned, and orchestrated manner, DirecTV had updated the old and ailing technology. The
hacking community responded, but cautiously, understanding that this new ability for DirecTV to apply
more advanced logic in the receiver was a dangerous new weapon. It was still possible to bypass the
protections and receive the programming, but DirecTV had not pulled the trigger of this new weapon.
"Last Sunday night, at 8:30 pm est, DirecTV fired their new gun. One week before the Super Bowl,
DirecTV launched a series of attacks against the hackers of their product. DirecTV sent programmatic
code in the stream, using their new dynamic code ally, that hunted down hacked smart cards and
destroyed them. The IRC DirecTV channels overflowed with thousands of people who had lost the ability
to watch their stolen TV. The hacking community by and large lost not only their ability to watch TV, but
the cards themselves were likely permanently destroyed. Some estimate that in one evening, 100,000
smart cards were destroyed, removing 98% of the hacking communities' ability to steal their signal. To
add a little pizzazz to the operation, DirecTV personally "signed" the anti-hacker attack. The first 8
computer bytes of all hacked cards were rewritten to read "GAME OVER".
picture, the final updates made all the useless bits of computer code join into a dynamic program,
existing on the card itself. This dynamic program changed the entire way the older technology worked. In
a masterful, planned, and orchestrated manner, DirecTV had updated the old and ailing technology. The
hacking community responded, but cautiously, understanding that this new ability for DirecTV to apply
more advanced logic in the receiver was a dangerous new weapon. It was still possible to bypass the
protections and receive the programming, but DirecTV had not pulled the trigger of this new weapon.
"Last Sunday night, at 8:30 pm est, DirecTV fired their new gun. One week before the Super Bowl,
DirecTV launched a series of attacks against the hackers of their product. DirecTV sent programmatic
code in the stream, using their new dynamic code ally, that hunted down hacked smart cards and
destroyed them. The IRC DirecTV channels overflowed with thousands of people who had lost the ability
to watch their stolen TV. The hacking community by and large lost not only their ability to watch TV, but
the cards themselves were likely permanently destroyed. Some estimate that in one evening, 100,000
smart cards were destroyed, removing 98% of the hacking communities' ability to steal their signal. To
add a little pizzazz to the operation, DirecTV personally "signed" the anti-hacker attack. The first 8
computer bytes of all hacked cards were rewritten to read "GAME OVER".
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From what I understand Direct TV caught the guys in Canada making the programs for the cards, and let them have a lighter sentence if they would make a program that could not be reproduced to get free TV. And now Dirext TC has a code that if you put your card in and try to use it they can find out where you live and they will come and arrest you. O well I guess there goes the cards.
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