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Old 10-04-2008, 09:59   #79
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down

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Originally Posted by Stuart C View Post
Look, I am not going out of my way to defend Virgin. Truth be told, most big companies would shaft their suppliers given half the chance (in my experience), and I suspect VM would, but bear in mind this: OnDigital.


OnDigital used an easy to crack encryption system, with the result that (they suspect) over half the DTT boxes in use were using dodgy cards to access premium content. OD folded with huge lossess.

One or two people using chipped boxes won't affect VM. Several hundred people using chipped boxes won't affect VM. Several thousand people using chipped boxes WILL affect VM.
One of the people working for the company doing the encyrption for On Digital released a document onto the internet which spelt out the inner workings of the On Digital encryption system. It wasn't hacked. Nobody has hacked any encryption, they have found back doors into certain versions of smartcards which have enabled them to find the Master keys
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