erm... i dont think happyjim meant 'bye, stuff it up ya *&$'.... lol, i could be wrong tho. I think he was saying he was happy again?? This thread is going round in circles and no use to anyone.
I'm gonna steer it back to reality and hope that everyone can be happy, we dont want no upset in the sat rooms.
Anyways, i will tell you the real reason the old uk v1 cards were replaced, and you wont read this anywhere else, cos nothing was ever public. Firstly, those light blue cards were 'glitchable' and were never made to be anti-unlooper proof, so Sky knew the time would come when someone managed a complete uk card dump and disassembly, it was only time, and that just happened to be a long time because most of us english were too dumb to realise, lol. Anyway i'll come back to that because there was a 'hack' a long way before that on the older cards that sky got wind of.
It was possible to order a new subscription, plug your new card into a season interface, phone sky for activation, then record the activation sequence with official signatures etc from the digital stream. Then when you never returned your contract you would be disconnected and no direct debit set up. But the instant you were disconnected you could re-send your own activation codes again :salute: That would work for about a month maybe and you would not receive the update, so you would be turned off again. You would simply use winexplorer to re-send the recorded activation again. :salute:
This was working for at least 11 months that i know of, before some real progress was made with unlooping the v1. I cant say i had full knowledge of how, because it was a closely kept secret, but i do have knowledge of some raids where the cards were discovered. This was enough proof for sly to immediately start replacing the v1 with v2 cards. The thing that was mostly learned from this was that you cant trust anyone! Sky obviously had inside knowledge to know where to strike and that was seriously non-public!
My post is to point out that hacks will happen, and have happened before, but there will be stages before a complete working box or card emerges. Needless to say our old re-initialise trick doesnt work on new versions.
Keep the peace here ppl, this aint no cable section... :T