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Originally Posted by Masque
Yes that will be an interesting one for them to work on cable, it is supposed to be fairly easy on SKY.
With our system though we see both the card and the box and they must match in order to work as we have to provision them with each other.
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One would also hope that the system can detect two boxes or cards with the same id. active at the same time. In terms of a purely computer network, two MAC or IP addresses cannot exist simultaneously on the same network. Even pre-IPTV, there must be a parallel to this in a cable TV environment. Of course, detection of duplicate or spoofed ids. isn't possible with unicast satellite systems. Return-path strikes again!
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Originally Posted by Masque
No one has cracked it in 3 years so they are taking their time.  |
Ah but now that Nagra3 is available on the VM network, it gives more motive, means and opportunity to those who wish to try cracking it!
Some additional points as I do my morning catch-up:-
Posts are now alternately referring to Customer Service and Card Sharing as CS.
I think the number of people who innocently buy modified cable boxes is very small or even insignificant. People who know little about technology tend to buy from a reliable source, even if it means paying full retail price. The advent of auction sites such as eBay has, perhaps, caused some people to 'buy the wrong thing' but, in the case of cable boxes, these are the ones who will innocently call VM and find out their mistake quite quickly. Yes, target the manufacturers, customisers and sellers of these 'after market' boxes (I like that!
) but almost all of the users of these boxes are guilty of, at a minimum, buying something from a suspect source that would indicate to them that it was stolen or in some way illegal or dubious at best.
VM have only just completed the merger of their disparate cable franchises and rolled out NGTV to all. This is the first real opportunity that they have had as a single entity to roll out Nagra3 across the whole network. Doing it any earlier as NTL and Telewest separately would have been more complex and more costly.
Nagravision Merlin is also known as Nagravision 3 - Now that's what I call magic!