XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design   
   From: eric.jacobsen@ieee.org   
      
   On 12/22/2009 9:18 PM, Jerry Avins wrote:   
   > Archimedes' Lever wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:08:44 +0000 (UTC), Rick Jones    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Is it "known" that the GI stuff (irony :) isn't cracked?   
   >>>   
   >>> rick jones   
   >>   
   >> None of their stuff has ever been cracked.   
   >>   
   >> There were chips sold that made receivers "all channel" devices that   
   >> circumnavigated PPV choices, etc, but NOBODY... EVER... BROKE... ANY   
   >> General Instrument crypto schema.   
   >   
   > Circumnavigated?   
      
   Went around, I think.   Like claiming the lock on the safe is   
   unpickable, but the hinge pins can be easily pulled.  Nobody will bother   
   to break a weak code when the back door is open.   
      
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