Do people hack DSTV decoders?

rvanwyk said:
hah, i "imported" the dvd. ordered it from musica online and the sourced it from paarl and sent it to jhb. heh
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LOL. any other good hacker movie you'd recommend? i want to watch a full blown hacker movie. not firewall or antitrust or swordfish. i want something really awsome.
 
mercurial said:
i find it strange that they don't have any sort of feature/system that allows them to see illegal users accessing their system.
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Is there any upstream from the decoder? If not how could they?
 
rvanwyk said:
hah, i "imported" the dvd. ordered it from musica online and the sourced it from paarl and sent it to jhb. heh
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Yeah - I got my copy from there too. :)
 
mercurial said:
i find it strange that they don't have any sort of feature/system that allows them to see illegal users accessing their system.
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It's probably too expensive, because this would mean they'll need servers to monitor every user, and this will need an uplink which needs to be paid for as well, so it's just not economically viable if I were to take a stab in the dark.
 
As far as I know, there is no way they can identify you. I figure this because my girlfriend's father uses a South African smartcard in Zambia (which isn't allowed) and it works 100%. Multichoice is not aware of this and we just do the payment from Johannesburg... They are none the wiser.
 
Velenoso said:
As far as I know, there is no way they can identify you. I figure this because my girlfriend's father uses a South African smartcard in Zambia (which isn't allowed) and it works 100%. Multichoice is not aware of this and we just do the payment from Johannesburg... They are none the wiser.
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many ppl do it in namibia as well. it allows you to watch all the channels that's available in ZA. some channels are blocked in our neighbouring countries.
 
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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Unless they have some kind of hidden transmitter in it how do they do that.

AFAIK the DSTV decoders don't transmit so that sounds like mumbo jumbo to scare people away from the fake cards.
 
hmmm, dont u also need a decoder for mnet? is it possible to watch mnet on your pc with some kind of software?
 
bwana said:
Is there any upstream from the decoder? If not how could they?
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I'm fairly sure that there is info going upstream. A mate of mine tried to guess the parental guidance password a few years back. After a bunch of tries, DSTV called.

The marriage thing also requires upstream AFAIK. I'm guessing they also use it to monitor the number of viewers per channel.

I would stay far away from an DSTV hacks.

btw the "correct" way to hack satellite TV is with a computer & satellite card not with a decoder.
 
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