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How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card


Chris Tarnovsky opens his to Wired.com, providing a into the world of TV - hacking. This complicated process involves , a and various — so don’t try this at home (unless you’re Chris Tarnovsky)! … hacker chip security Tarnovsky technology wired Wired



25 Responses to “How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card”

  1. ZachariahLogan says:

    hm…. a lot of effort for free tv.. Internet much?

  2. Maxxxshop says:

    I did the same 10 years ago. But I used another needle. 5 minutes and it was done. For more information got to bla bla bla ;-) .
    Sorry, but this guy is amazing! Can somebody tell me where to get this needle?

  3. RobertusWE says:

    too easy…. nta minchia!

  4. sajeen123 says:

    wow how easy….

  5. willdasolja says:

    what the fuck is he trying to do ?

  6. cnuchavez84 says:

    ‘we’ lol ok kiddo.

  7. viktortech says:

    wow dumb ass its not cells

  8. jiimy21 says:

    this guy is a one man army. i would want at least 5 million for the project. if me gets a million without taxes. hey that s better them living in momma basement. smart guy, bless him. now we need someone 2x smarter then him to hack it. go for it black hats, we shall prevail. death to the new world order.

  9. Chewy7771 says:

    good old white hats…

  10. bealerDSB says:

    this guy so clever…

  11. gytarok says:

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  12. splifey says:

    can you hack nagra vision 3?

  13. AntiVaccine says:

    Avoid vaccines, they contain mercury, aluminum, MSG, aspartame, formaldehyde, squalene etc that cause diseases like ADD, autism, Lupus, Gulf War syndrome, Lou Gehrig’s, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, cancer, asthma, arthritus, depression etc. Now the WHO is pushing 4.9 billion H1N1 vaccines to be made & used throughout the world..hmm

  14. softglases666 says:

    awesome…!!!
    pretty cool…

  15. arrancarfish says:

    you’re a stupid fucking idiot trying to get people to visit your site >>> *url removed* /?hop=sonobby1

    I hope nobody pays money for that worthless shit, all it does is MAKE YOU PAY FOR THINGS LIKE YOUTUBE.

  16. Markitos203 says:

    I didn’t now it was so hard to get the codes for my viewsat .. lol

  17. sonobby1 says:

    I watch all movies/sports and normal tv all from one place, it beats paying sky or other packages, its brilliant.
    bit (dot)ly/3e9Ovx

  18. scpalmettoman says:

    One bad move and you will blow your house up! No thanks ! I just rather pay my bill ! lol

  19. Dragun92 says:

    umm a processor cud fit there but its just a microcontroller like on a sony memstik u heard about the the memstick micros right?? smart cards are similar to that i guess

  20. kinko37321 says:

    You’re just plain wrong about no processor in the smart card. Some do, some don’t. Standard silicon wafer sizes are less than 1000um thick, saying one can’t fit there is wrong. The gold space is contacts, thats is correct, but they’re not the entire card nor does the processor have to be directly under them. Just look up the datasheet on a Mifare DESFire ISO 14443A Contactless smartcard. “Dies on 8″ water, sawn on FCC, 150um thickness” , “Hardware DES/3DES Data encryption on RF-channel…”

  21. Dragun92 says:

    umm…magic dust???

  22. Dragun92 says:

    ur an idiot and even though u make some gud points u havent been listening to what i say. smart cards cant have a processor on it the gold thing u see are the contacts the processor is in either the phone or the thing ur gonna use that sim in. the processor in a computer is a microprocessor are u aware that intel has invented an 80 core chip that is the size of a sim or ur fingernail??? if there was a processor the card wud be thick. the sim/smart card uses similar mechanisms to a memstick

  23. kinko37321 says:

    Mind explaining how just rom and ram does 3-DES without a microcontroller? Smartcards can have processors, ram, rom, whatever an engineer wants to put on a die that size. Your processor in your computer isn’t that much bigger, it just has several hundred I/O pins and needs a large casing to handle physical connections and manage heat. Heck, you could fit 32 core 2 duo die’s on a smart card. They’re only 143mm^2. Powering them without causing a fire is a different story.

  24. journeyquest1 says:

    I have some magic dust i sprinkle on the card and presto, info. Whats the point and how many people have acess to this tech? Woops my card got lost/ destroyed i need a new one. New tech soon becomes old tech.

  25. Dragun92 says:

    its a chip with some ram and rom ram for sending and recieving data and rom for storing data duuhhh its not a processor nobody has invented a processor to the thin and small size of a sim

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