Satellite tv hacking

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The receiver uses information and commands from the stream to send commands to the smart card. The smart card does some super secret processing and spits out a response.

The receiver uses that response to do the things it needs to do, like decode the video, decide what channels you are allowed to watch, or send more commands to the smart card. These commands use a multitude of maps in specific orders to correctly calculate everything.

The hackers eventually figured out those too, and the provider would switch to yet another set. Once all the Maps were solved, the provider enacted a scheme to regularly switch the Maps around, and so the game of cat and mouse continued on and on. Every time the hackers figured something out, the provider would just change it.

It was around this time that Viewsat and other popular FTA receivers flooded the market. These companies made a killing selling perfectly legal equipment that could easily be reprogrammed to decode Nagra 2 streams.

Whenever the providers changed something which at this point was a couple times a week the end user only needed to pop a fresh program onto their receiver and continue watching TV.

The hackers, being hobbyists with nothing to gain, were particularly angry over this. For them it was a hobby, not unlike a jigsaw puzzle. You solve the riddles and share the results freely, only to have a company in South Korea earn millions of dollars because of your work. Too late, though, its such a lucrative business that now they have their own hackers to keep them going. By this time corporate corruption and backdoor deals were rampant. I remember watching Map57 enter the stream, effectively killing all piracy, only to see it disappear from the stream a few days later, allowing everything to work again.

Word around the water cooler is that someone at Viewsat payed off an employee of one of the providers to lift it from the stream for a bit, so they could unload their inventory before everything went dark for good. Said employee was dismissed, and Map57 started to creep back into the stream, but due to security concerns because Map57 was also cracked by the same FTA manufacturer it was complimented with even more Maps. The freelance hackers and coders had all abandoned the game, choosing instead to sit by and watch like I did after the card swap.

But money talks, so these FTA manufacturers and their hackers-for-hire played the game pretty hard, and kept things going for a good while. Due to the rampant financial success of overseas FTA manufacturers, the providers decided to perform another card swap.

The third generation of Nagravision was incredibly powerful, combining all previous encryption and security schemes. Because the majority of the hackers and coders no longer wanted to have other people profit from their work, no hacks were released. Some unreliable internet card-sharing schemes were set up in an attempt to continue sales of FTA boxes, but most people would rather pay a monthly fee to a provider than a group of flaky crooks overseas.

The transition to Nagra 3 effectively marked the end of Satellite TV hacking. Because the internet is such a powerful thing in the world today, most piracy is being done online. There are hundreds of copies of every episode of every TV show and every movie ever made online at any given moment.

Easy-to-use programs scan the internet looking for them and provide a simple list for the end user, who needs only click an item on-screen to watch free TV. Even TV streams are being re-broadcast online for others to see.

This is especially tricky to target because literally anyone with a paid subscription can broadcast a stream to the world, and the providers have no way to know whose it is. Nagra 4 is now being released through yet another card swap, this time it mainly adds features to combat illegal IPTV streaming.

There is no doubt that the streamers especially those who charge for their illegal service will figure out a workaround, and yet another game of cat and mouse will begin. But lets go back to the CSA. The single 8-byte control word that unlocks the entire satellite stream. This is a random bit word that is different for every channel and now changes every few seconds. I wonder if TV providers took action right as they saw this to try and prevent it from continuing into the future.

If this Hacker is so clever he should have a good professional job making enough money to afford a smart card or dstv subscription haha. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. Subscribe Now. Ya I agree with you gedskem but I still found it interesting lolol.

Yep : not for joe average BUT very interesting if simpler method available. Used my lab at work.. Wasted a couple but did get 1 to function. AKA Mr M. Wow, that's a big hole in sat-tv security.