Security for digital migration

[The_Unbeliever]

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2373801,00.html

Johannesburg - Strict security features will be installed in set-top boxes that will enable South Africans to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said in Johannesburg on Monday.

Wanna bet how long it will be before the first haxx0rd boxen will appear?

 

[.Froot.]

Maybe two weeks after launch? Or maybe six weeks before, as was with XP

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Maybe two weeks after launch? Or maybe six weeks before, as was with XP

Not gonna bet on that...

 

[.Froot.]

True. Let's just hope South African encryption and security is better than that of Gates.

 

[arf9999]

This seems to indicate that there will be a Conditional Access (CA) module fitted which is really bad news. What that means is that it is unlikely that an off-the-shelf digital TV will be able to work with the so-called free-to-air channels. Welcome to the world of the smart card TV license.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

This seems to indicate that there will be a Conditional Access (CA) module fitted which is really bad news. What that means is that it is unlikely that an off-the-shelf digital TV will be able to work with the so-called free-to-air channels. Welcome to the world of the smart card TV license.

Then I won't buy one. Simple as that.

 

[bwana]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=130893

 

[.Froot.]

Then I won't buy one. Simple as that.

They'll make you buy one. Put a gun to your head and say "buy it... or else"

The people re wondering how they will implement the "access card" thingamabob that will allow or deny us TV? Simple... it's digital, meaning that it might have a serial number such as the EMEI or whatever number on a phone, which can be blacklisted, traced, etc....