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How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card

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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)!

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: wired

Length: 04:35
Rating: 4.526093
Views: 724724

Tags: hacker  satellite  tv  smart  card  chip  hack  security  Tarnovsky  technology  wired  

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WindowsSoftwareDe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
wow! this is so complicated
DracoAzule (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
So I guess my hairdryer and paperclips won't work.
Makinnoz13 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
is this legal? i really dont care but i wanna know
dalorick (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@discocreator76 No man u are wrong. if u do it one time u dont need to do it again. So u can use it forever coz the metal area wont burn again (i think)
VERGIS92 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@discocreator76 he's being contracted by the Chinese microchip industry, I am sure they pay him BIG MONEY to hack into missile chips, do you know how profitable those chips are?
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dxtbot (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
fake hacker , working for chip lab ,, yea right
MichaelMantion (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@TheOlor12345 Is there a hack for that??
MYBIGKINDHEART (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@b0wlcut it could be your connectors such as hdmi cables
eekcage (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Not being a know it all but you COULD do this for sub 1 grand easy and a hefty skill in machine code. I often de-cap IC's just to see what blew up. So i take it this guy is now advising on how to prevent what he just did. Many methods look here cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tamper.html UV blasing/auto fails on exposure to hf is easy .. thanks for ruining my fun for the next few years

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