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infernal machines posted:buddy, my high school job was working for a place where i installed mod chips and unlooped hu cards for pirated direct tv. had a classmate whose dad did the HU hacking, I think ca. 2000 they had some low-class Pentiums operating in the middle. i May have asked this itt before but is there a history of direcTV authorization hacking? I’d be interested to read about efforts against the F card and DTV/Echostar zapping people before big events, all the way up to whenever it stopped working. are there still people who pirate satellite?
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Hed posted:had a classmate whose dad did the HU hacking, I think ca. 2000 they had some low-class Pentiums operating in the middle. yeah, you could emulate the old "h" cards with a PC. this might be some of what you want we used to make crazy money during playoffs, olympics, and world cup because we'd offer a 20-day guarantee on the hu unloop any other time, but during those events it was pay every time, and direct tv would hit the cards multiple times a day sometimes. i was out of it before the switch to P4 infernal machines fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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Dec 18, 2019 00:50
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spankmeister posted:As a sort of pirate netflix, yes. People will pay for that. wild.
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Sniep posted:wild. Where's methanar
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Captain Foo posted:Where's methanar idgi
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methanar posted about a horrific monster of a hardware platform built to host shitloads of pirate streams, all funded by vc, that they were a part of. someone found the racks on ebay recently
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did somebody say ghetto streaming platform
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infernal machines posted:methanar posted about a horrific monster of a hardware platform built to host shitloads of pirate streams, all funded by vc, that they were a part of. ooh that sounds fun. totally missed that
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Sniep posted:ooh that sounds fun. totally missed that https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903757&userid=204963#post500237975 Methanar posted:did somebody say ghetto streaming platform well hello there
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Dec 18, 2019 01:20
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Hed posted:are there still people who pirate satellite? Yeah, but it's done with card sharing now
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Dec 18, 2019 01:26
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You can buy accounts for that on AliExpress lmao
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infernal machines posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903757&userid=204963#post500237975 [img-vince
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Sniep posted:ooh that sounds fun. totally missed that no what's really fun is that those pictures were apparently to NBSD's weirdly strict sense of propriety what a desk corner is to a funny-bone, and seeing so much "wrong" broke his rigid little brain so hard that he started accusing methanar of trading in child pornography
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yeah... that was one of the more bizarre meltdowns i've seen in yospos
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in the same way that I'm looking forward to seeing the results of the impending climate catastrophe I'm looking forward to seeing how nbsd manages to out-nbsd himself when he's off his ban+30 in a week
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infernal machines posted:yeah, you could emulate the old "h" cards with a PC. cheers for the link. Would love to see how the old designs worked. Sort of like that 33c3 video on cable TV box RE.
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mystes posted:It sounded like the were just downloading a docker or VM image from dropbox every time they ran it or something, though, and it's not like dropbox has some sort of magic VM image merge conflict resolution scheme, so I don't see why they can't just cut out the dropbox part immediately? i just don't think the team who hosted 500tb of production data in dropbox would really be up to using containers or vms
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Hed posted:cheers for the link. Would love to see how the old designs worked. Sort of like that 33c3 video on cable TV box RE. around the late 90s/early 00s we had some janky pirate setup for decoding dish tv. it was a home-soldered pcmcia card that went in the official slot on the set top box, and when they changed the encryption key, you updated the card by going into the parental lock and inputting incredibly long codes with no feedback whatsoever (split into 4 digit bits because the parent lock was that size). then you tried going to a locked channel and had to wait for a couple minutes to see if it worked it was tedious as hell
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Krankenstyle posted:dish stuff
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no idea, i dont think i ever saw a legit one
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Dec 18, 2019 12:48
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really? i have one on a shelf, but don't own a dish anymore as i simply didn't use it enough
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My dad had one of those chip writers for a while until DirecTV flashed them all in one shot and that hack didn’t work anymore, then we paid a tech $100 to unlock the box or something Stealing satellite is probably why I’m in the career I am today. yikes.
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when i was a kid my dad was building the cartridges and selling them that broke the copy protection for that c64 leaderboard golf game. also he used to build the descramblers for cable boxes and sold those as well. that's where i got my interest in tech poo poo.
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piracy dads could be a ganagtag
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https://www.straight.com/life/1338251/lifelabs-ceo-charles-brown-says-he-doesnt-know-if-hacked-test-result-data-was-encrypted i am so pissed off over this that i filed four FOI requests to see what the health authorities knew. i am faxing off two more later this morning
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spankmeister posted:As a sort of pirate netflix, yes. People will pay for that. oddly enough, just today i saw a news article about some guys getting busted for this. they were running a paid pirate stream company out of las vegas nevada why would you run something like this out of the usa? that's basically asking to go to jail
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speaking of, plexpass is on sale for the next two days for 90 bucks
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fairly late (mid 00s?) directv sent out a pay-or-we’ll-sue demand letter (for $3k?) to everyone who had ordered card programmers (?) from one of the vendors they had sued.
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PCjr sidecar posted:fairly late (mid 00s?) directv sent out a pay-or-we’ll-sue demand letter (for $3k?) to everyone who had ordered card programmers (?) from one of the vendors they had sued. they would often get all of the sales records from a busted vendor and just spam "pay us $3500 and admit guilt and we won't sue you" letters to everyone, regardless of what they had actually purchased. in one case they demanded money from anyone who bought a smartcard reader, regardless of what they used it for, and in another case they demanded money from people who bought things that had nothing to do with tv piracy, like dreamcast mod chips (which only defeated the region lock), just because they bought them from some vendor that also sold hacked satellite cards all pay tv providers are poo poo and i'm glad they are slowly going down the drain e: even better quote:On one occasion, I learned from some other investigators that (DirecTV) was trying to obtain a settlement from a letter recipient who had bought a plastic pouch that could be used to carry a smart card programmer. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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The_Franz posted:all pay tv providers are poo poo and i'm glad they are slowly going down the drain and being replaced by pay streaming providers, who definitely won’t start doing the same poo poo because
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Lain Iwakura posted:https://www.straight.com/life/1338251/lifelabs-ceo-charles-brown-says-he-doesnt-know-if-hacked-test-result-data-was-encrypted You saw that really it's a lot of alarmist reporting around "a bit of data got cryptolockered and nothing necessarily got exfiltrated", right?
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James Baud posted:You saw that really it's a lot of alarmist reporting around "a bit of data got cryptolockered and nothing necessarily got exfiltrated", right? this problem is well above your head it appears
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James Baud posted:You saw that really it's a lot of alarmist reporting around "a bit of data got cryptolockered and nothing necessarily got exfiltrated", right? did you see the part where the article says quote:The cyberattack has been characterized in the media as a "ransomware" event. and also the part where they were explicitly told they needed to secure the data at rest, but they can't actually say whether or not the data was secured?
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Lain Iwakura posted:this problem is well above your head it appears Non-technical CEO asked technical question and doesn't know answer is just miles up there. Even if the data was encrypted, any non-automated breach is typically going to also include scoring the means to decrypt it. You know enough about this stuff to know better.
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James Baud posted:Non-technical CEO asked technical question and doesn't know answer is just miles up there. Lain Iwakura posted:this problem is well above your head it appears
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not sure what the word however is doing in there, a ransomware attack necessarily includes a demand for payment to decrypt data the report I saw made it sound like they downloaded a bunch of stuff and charged money to send it back  it's a much safer bet that no msm article will correctly use enough computer words in a row to describe what happened there's an excellent chance they were backdoored and someone made copies of their poo poo, which is bad and a thing you won't realize from reading dead tree daily
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i think, ideally, following a breach, the CEO should have a very clear answer to the question "were your legally mandated data storage policies followed?" and of course if the answer is "i don't know" to what extent can it be assumed that any of your data access, retention, and security policies have been followed? flakeloaf posted:not sure what the word however is doing in there, a ransomware attack necessarily includes a demand for payment to decrypt data yeah, it's probably a case of poor tech reporting, but the meaning of the sentence is pretty specific. as in the case in question is not like other ransomware cases, in some way
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infernal machines posted:i think, ideally, following a breach, the CEO should have a very clear answer to the question "were your legally mandated data storage policies followed?" or at least the CEO should have the right CYA ready, like “a third party audit found we meet all legal standards” or whatever bs.
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