Do people hack DSTV decoders?

don't know if anyone still reads this thread... but is anyone aware of how dstv cancels a subscription, is it like the old mnet decoders, if u unplug decoder with smartcard and cancel it after that they cant deactivate it until you plug it back in, i also heard that after a few months they stopped sending the signal to cancel out so if you plugged decoder back in after a certain time period you could watch free of charge, i thought this might work with dstv as your decoder does not send any info out only receives unless dstv now have enough bandwidth to continually send out the cancel signal. though you might know quantum... or anyone else. I am asking because my brother upgraded to hd pvr at beginning of march and gave me his old decoder, i set it up on the 12th march and was still working but after a day i was getting messages saying 'checking smartcard' it then got canceled.
 
The bad news is that even if you missed all the "switch off" command - the card still has a built in timer - 28 days if memory serves - so the first time you plug it in it would know you have exceeded. Anyway pulling the card out will cause you to miss daily updates. It's well covered mate
 
ponder said:
As far as I know duplicating smart cards is no longer an option. Cracking Irdeto seems impossible so die wet van transvaal applies :D
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Yep, my uncle was the vice-president of Irdeto & I went to their offices in Holland once. The amount of technology that goes into those cards is amazing. They were the cryptology suppliers for PayTV networks across Asia, Canada and South America...so they weren't fart-arsing around.

As for the Wet van Transvaal, you'd be pleased to know that half their staff were Afrikaans okes who moved there. :D
 
You could use your smart card in different decoders when DStv started but for many year now the smart card is paired with one decoder and will only work with that paired decoder.
 
samkruger said:
You could use your smart card in different decoders when DStv started but for many year now the smart card is paired with one decoder and will only work with that paired decoder.
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11 year old thread! Not bad .
Truth is the dstv decoders are such junk these days that they are not worth the hacking effort anymore.
But to answer yes they are hacked and in some cases it has never been easier.
 
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