Thread: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Old 19-10-2009, 13:13   #397
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by Hiroki View Post
Also are the test areas just to see if anyone can compromise the system or are they there just to see how people take to the cards?
Neither.

It's to test how well VM's systems cope with the migration to n3.

You don't want to do a largescale rollout and suddenly find you have issues with the backend equipment, so you do small test areas first. Standard roll out practice for anything.

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Originally Posted by Begize View Post
I'm pretty sure that Sky's NDS hasn't been cracked yet. There's been rumours of people breaking it and being paid off or threatened by Murdoch's lawyers.
From what I know it was close to being cracked once, and sky responded extremely quickly with new cards (that was the last new card roll out from sky in 02 I think?) and the latest set of new cards from them is to prevent softcams from being used to card share.

So yeah, it hasn't ever been completely cracked.
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