Thread: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Old 30-05-2010, 09:38   #844
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Post Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by TheDon View Post
"Secure" isn't really the term I'd use.

Cardsharing is going to get a massive rise in popularity, there isn't currently a system that isn't vulnerable to it, and people will start to wonder why they ever bothered with their dodgy cable boxes in the first place.
I haven't read up extensively on how card-sharing works but, as I keep saying here and elsewhere, it's not going to be possible to do that sort of thing with a cable network, especially after we go IPTV.

I presume that, for card-sharing to work, the viewing card and it's paired set-top-box serial number both have to be spoofed. Because of the one-way broadcast nature of the satellite systems, it's easy to clone an STB and its viewing card. Not so easy on a cabled set-up if your STB has to have a unique MAC and IP address.
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