XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design   
   From: OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org   
      
   On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:42:18 -0700, Eric Jacobsen   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
      
     Maybe it is due to your bloodline's goddamned idiot factor.   
      
     There was NO breach of the crypto code or schema, so it would be YOU   
   that has obviously mis-read.  Hacked boxes were sold, and the hack was   
   NOT a breaking of the protection schema's operation, it was by bypassing   
   it altogether within the chip.  That scenario is not even possible any   
   longer.   
      
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