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Do people hack DSTV decoders?
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ld13
Honorary Master
Not if you keep on typing like some crazy idiot and adding 238946289346 ?'s after every question...
Turiko
Banned
Well duh, Multichoice constantly change the encryption keys every few months.
Does it now make sense why the hackers publish lists of encryption keys on eMule every so often?ajax
Executive Member
Well duh, Multichoice constantly change the encryption keys every few months.
An old colleague of mine had a "hacked" installation and yes, every few months it would stop working and he had to buy a new smart card from the hacker. Eventually he decided to just pay the damn subscription - too much hassle getting a new smart card and missing programs. Besides, he wanted the free magazine too.
R5640 per year for a "free" magazine
Thats anything but free. Anyhow pm me ur hacker friend's number 
Turiko
Banned
Yes, new smart card with the new IRDETO key. Seen tons of card reader/writer apps on eMule for this purpose...
Too much hassle for the average user, and besides, it is better to pay the insane fee, and stay out of jail as a bonus
gregmcc
Honorary Master
It can be done - but its not worth the hassle. Keys change too often. There's also much much worth watching on dstv. If it was sky on the other hand....
Turiko
Banned
Indeed, defnitely not worth the hassle, and the inconvenience of finding new keys that work.... and the hassle of having interrupted service whilst one writes changes to the smart card.
gregmcc
Honorary Master
mercurial
MyBB Legend
Turiko
Banned
Short answer- NO!
How hard can it be? Get a smartcard writer/reader, Get the software make a copy of a legal smartcard onto your "backup"
(Dont know how ur gonna get past the decoder marrage thing)
Or Get the smartcard writer, get the software, download the keys from emule and write to card.
(Just taking a swing never done anything like this)
(Dont know how ur gonna get past the decoder marrage thing)
Or Get the smartcard writer, get the software, download the keys from emule and write to card.
(Just taking a swing never done anything like this)
Turiko
Banned
It is easy... no-one said it was difficult. It is just inconvenient and then one has to hope and pray that the key works. It's like getting a whole long list of XP keys and you have to enter each one until you find one that works.
However, since I have never done this, nor do I wish to do so, I have no idea how the smartcard marriage aspect works to comment about that security measure. I have heard stories of card cloning by using a microcontroller which emulates a smartcard. I've seen the source code for same, also available on eMule.
However, since I have never done this, nor do I wish to do so, I have no idea how the smartcard marriage aspect works to comment about that security measure. I have heard stories of card cloning by using a microcontroller which emulates a smartcard. I've seen the source code for same, also available on eMule.
Can someone please tell me if DSTV can be hacked with a FTA Viewsat (www.totalfta.com) receiver. It's currently used to hack Dishnetwork in the States on Echostar 7 and 8,10. If so ,does anyone know which PGM should be loaded on it ??
Interesting reading
http://www.rabbitmedia.com/
Stumbled upon this, not sure about the legality of using one of these in SA.
http://www.rabbitmedia.com/
Stumbled upon this, not sure about the legality of using one of these in SA.
