[Horace]

Systems don't tend to be cracked in the way some people imagine. It often involves inside help often either through blackmail or bribery. I'm pretty sure the reason why NDS hasn't fallen is due to better people management and no single person holding enough information to completely break the encryption. Maybe Kudelski have learnt from their previous mistakes in this respect.
To suggest some random person in Middlesbrough has broken this system is ludicrous to say the least, unless they have access to an electron microscope then it isn't going to come from there. Older techniques which I won't mention here don't seem to be working. If VM do switch to N3 or an enhanced version of, then I would guess that IPTV will have taken over long before that system is broken.