How to Reverse Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card
Bit of background info (if you didnt know about the case) ....
Chris Tarnovsky, the 39 year old American is accused of having been recruited in 1999 by the Israeli company NDS (NDS is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.) , a competitor of Kudelski, to break the security codes of Canal+ (French Pay TV) and publish them on the Internet, and to have repeated the operation, to the detriment of the Swiss group and its clients. The publication of these codes allowed hundreds of thousands of savvy users to access encrypted TV channels without paying the subscription fees.
The American satellite TV company Echostar also uses Kudelski cards to protect their content. They confirmed having lost hundreds of millions of US dollars due to these pirate activities and demand one billion US$ of damages from NDS, a subsidiary of the media group News Corp.
In his eyes, the case against NDS is nothing short of an extortion attempt.
"Sure, I've broken the cards of Kudelski", he annoyedly states. "I was paid by NDS to do it. This is an activity that all companies in the trade do. But why would I have published these codes on the Net for free? I am not stupid, and I never had the intention of taking that risk."
Good luck if you want to try it at home
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Originally Posted by Kev
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