Do people hack DSTV decoders?

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I dont know if u guys have even gone into a flea market or a shady corner store and found that the store owner is watching or has DSTV playing on a TV in his store. Do u find it strange that he would play hundreds of rands to get a paid channel on a tv that he is only going to use from 8 til 5 each day?
I have heard rumours that DSTV units can be hacked, and why not anyways, i mean they have hacked and chipped ps2, xboxes, ps3 by now, why not the decoders?
Can decoders really be hacked?
 
maybe he just takes his smartcard from home when he goes to work?
 
cellular said:
I dont know if u guys have even gone into a flea market or a shady corner store and found that the store owner is watching or has DSTV playing on a TV in his store. Do u find it strange that he would play hundreds of rands to get a paid channel on a tv that he is only going to use from 8 til 5 each day?
I have heard rumours that DSTV units can be hacked, and why not anyways, i mean they have hacked and chipped ps2, xboxes, ps3 by now, why not the decoders?
Can decoders really be hacked?
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Not the decoder, but you can buy Free to watch Smart cards. They don't last very long though
 
hmmm,im not technical enough to do that. im just curious about it. Whats this thing about sms?
 
A former colleague of mine showed me a fake smart card about 2 years ago. It was credit card sized PCB (printed circuit boad) with pads in the same locations as the contacts on a smart card. On the PCB there was also a surface mount microcontroller. According to him you could watch DSTV to your hearts content. He paid a lot of money for it but he got his full money's worth and more. I did some searching on the net after I saw that but I never found anything again.

There were also those "chipped" Mnet decoders that a lot of people had.
 
jetpacman said:
A former colleague of mine showed me a fake smart card about 2 years ago. It was credit card sized PCB (printed circuit boad) with pads in the same locations as the contacts on a smart card. On the PCB there was also a surface mount microcontroller. According to him you could watch DSTV to your hearts content. He paid a lot of money for it but he got his full money's worth and more. I did some searching on the net after I saw that but I never found anything again.

There were also those "chipped" Mnet decoders that a lot of people had.
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yes but the danger of DSTV fake cards are a real danger. i spoke to someone about this a while back and he told me that they can find you real quick. he said they could ping the remote device and find you!
 
mercurial said:
yes but the danger of DSTV fake cards are a real danger. i spoke to someone about this a while back and he told me that they can find you real quick. he said they could ping the remote device and find you!
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[*Looks out the window to see if it's a full moon*] Awooooooo!!:D
 
mercurial said:
yes but the danger of DSTV fake cards are a real danger. i spoke to someone about this a while back and he told me that they can find you real quick. he said they could ping the remote device and find you!
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How could they find you if there's no way for a decoder to send out signals?
 
A friend of mine said he had the decoder software on his PC.. apparently, so he claimed, if you had a TV card, and plugged in an aerial, then you could watch for free... MNet only I think tho..thats what he mentioned. or maybe it would work with Dstc as well, but then you still need the satelite dish
 
Syndyre said:
How could they find you if there's no way for a decoder to send out signals?
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do you have the specs for the decoder that proves it can't send out signals?

Natas said:
A friend of mine said he had the decoder software on his PC.. apparently, so he claimed, if you had a TV card, and plugged in an aerial, then you could watch for free... MNet only I think tho..thats what he mentioned. or maybe it would work with Dstc as well, but then you still need the satelite dish
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the mnet software was available a while back, but it could work in other countries as well for their specific channels. all it did was decrypt the incoming signal. this won't work with dstv for many reasons. i don't feel like going thru it again :)
 
I've heard the cards cost around 2 grand and aren't too hard to get hold of...
 
mercurial said:
do you have the specs for the decoder that proves it can't send out signals?



the mnet software was available a while back, but it could work in other countries as well for their specific channels. all it did was decrypt the incoming signal. this won't work with dstv for many reasons. i don't feel like going thru it again :)
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lol!! you'll nead a much bigger dish and more powerfull lnb to transmit. dstv communication is one-way only!
 
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