XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design   
   From: eric.jacobsen@ieee.org   
      
   On 12/22/2009 11:48 PM, Archimedes' Lever wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I think you misread.   You could try again, but I've not a lot of   
   confidence in the outcome.   
      
      
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