General : Hacking returned to VM ?

[RichardCoulter]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/...don_10_02_2014

Just watched the above programme on how pirates are hacking the Sky TV system.

I wonder if this is now being used to access channels on the VM platform too?

[theone2k10]

Been around for years.

On a pc so can not access the link. I assume it is about card sharing

[paultrademark]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

Been around for years.

This.

It's never really been away.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

On a pc so can not access the link. I assume it is about card sharing

Unfortunately, my tablet always redirects to the mobile site.

If you go to the full site and search for 'Inside Out London" for 10/2/14, you should be able to find it. It is also on the VM Catch Up TV service.

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Originally Posted by theone2k10

Been around for years.

Do you mean on Virgin Media too? The programme only mentioned Sky, but from how they said they were doing it, I wondered if it could be done on VM.

I always thought that card sharing was about fooling the box into thinking that a valid card was being used by giving it the details of a legitimate card. It seems that what they do is fool your own card into unlocking unsubscribed channels by pinching the codes from another card where all the channels have been paid for and unlocked.

With hindsight, the way I thought that they would do it would create card and box pairing problems.

I aint that bothered its gonna be card sharing and I know about it already

You do not use sky boxes

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Unfortunately, my tablet always redirects to the mobile site.

If you go to the full site and search for 'Inside Out London" for 10/2/14, you should be able to find it. It is also on the VM Catch Up TV service.

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Do you mean on Virgin Media too? The programme only mentioned Sky, but from how they said they were doing it, I wondered if it could be done on VM.

I always thought that card sharing was about fooling the box into thinking that a valid card was being used by giving it the details of a legitimate card. It seems that what they do is fool your own card into unlocking unsubscribed channels by pinching the codes from another card where all the channels have been paid for and unlocked.

With hindsight, the way I thought that they would do it would create card and box pairing problems.

It's pretty easy to do and set up, you don't use Sky boxes there are certain boxes you use which have been retailing on legit sites such as Amazon for about £100, as for Virgin media i honestly have no idea.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

On a pc so can not access the link. I assume it is about card sharing

Just take 'mobile' out of the url

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...don_10_02_2014

See, it's not rocket science

if I was bothered and did not already know all about it I may have tried to sort it other than one click and a oh well

[jb66]

I've seen one on the virgin network. Wasn't impressed with it.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Unfortunately, my tablet always redirects to the mobile site.

Download dolphin browser and set the user agent to desktop. Using mobile sites, especially the BBC, does my head in.

[thenry]

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/20...page-2.html#20