XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design   
   From: eric.jacobsen@ieee.org   
      
   On 12/23/2009 5:58 PM, Archimedes' Lever wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Uh, yeah, so you did, in fact, misread.   
      
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