XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design   
   From: OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org   
      
   On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:49:52 -0700, Eric Jacobsen   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
      
     That is not what happened either, ya dope.   
      
     The chips were being fabbed in greater number than those being sold to   
   the set top box makers, and that meant that hot chips were going out the   
   back door ...   of the fab house.  That has nothing to do with breaking   
   any code anywhere.   
      
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