How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card
Notorious hacker Chris Tarnovsky opens his underground laboratory to Wired.com, providing a peek into the world of satellite TV smart-card hacking. This complicated process involves nail polish, a pin head and various acids — so don’t try this at home (unless you’re Chris Tarnovsky)!
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LOL
thanks for clearing it out lol…
he could really give those cable companies a headache selling illegal smartcards lol
he melts the plastic coating to allow himself the chips main processing areas, from there hes basically circuit bending, he is putting his own data pulses into the chip and watching the output, that way he can hack it to do whatever he wants. the input pulses help decode the security parts of the chip, once he understands the functioning he will be able to make the chip do work for him. its incredible, i wish i was smart enough to know the different pieces of the chip, i only know 555 chips lol
it kind of reminds me of circuit bending where the people connect random wires and make tones from the logic chips firing the pulses.
thats awesome you can bypass the security programming by going soild state to the circuit itself, that makes alot of sense cause at some point the data has to be the correct code, before its turned into a cryptic message. awesome job . how the hell did he figure out what chemicals to use. pure genius.
lol damn i didnt even get jack he was going on about 60% of the time
but thats talent if its real lol
totally not easy, you nuts?
its easier the way the he´s doing on vid.
Well iff you think its easy, do you think this that you watched was the dificult options to hack it? i mean if theres a easier way he would be using it.
There are security measures to not revers eng work.
I was wondering the point in reading the data inside a smart card
one possibility is to open the smart card on a TV tuner and reverse engineer the code used to get satellite TV. You could use a computer and a TV tuner card to get free satellite TV
wow i didnt understand alot of the last part but i see what he was doing. he is one smart motherf*cker
look at the eye’s of those ppl.. I don’t think they had a lot of sleep while figuring out how to hack that thing it seems to me.
turkish hackerz are the best!
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“Glitching with the glitcher”. Electronic microscope, fume hood venting outside, digital sampling oscilloscopes … all to save $50/month?