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Viaccess 3.0 hacked?
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bod
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being doing abit of reading on this......its old but relevant
"""UK - Italy - Germany and other european nations already using Videoguard.
Today's target ? France (Viaccess belongs to France Telecom).
Do you remember the outcome of Canal Plus/Vivendi writ of summons/lawsuit against NDS in front of Los Angeles Court ?
Next victims ? Nagra (Spain and few other)
Who is the hacker ? So easy to reply: a thycoon whose technical laboratories are based in Israel (dont forget Chris Tarnovsky story who became an NDS employee)."""""
anyone know Chris Tarnovsky ??
Interview with Chris Tarnovsky, the Hacker!
Echostar is suing NDS (maker of VideoGuard, DTV's encryption system, and also CEO'ed by Rupert Murdoch) for $1 Billion for damages for piracy and copyright infringement of the Echostar Viewing card codes and for aiding the distribution and supply of pirate Echostar viewing cards for the Echostar owned Dish TV.
A key witness was in Amsterdam on the weekend attending a conference, and spoke to reporters and other interested parties:
Quote:
François Pilet, Amsterdam
Saturday, March 29 2008
The audience is glued to the lips of Christopher Tarnovsky. In front of a podium of hackers and security specialists - with an average age of 25 - the self-taught electronics specialist revealed the techniques that allow him to break open chip cards that block access to pay TV chains in the whole world.
The scene takes place in the Mövenpick hotel in Amsterdam, where the European edition of the Black Hat conference was held Thursday and Friday last week. This is one of the prime professional meetings dedicated to computer piracy. Among the twenty or so speakers invited to this big get-together, Christoper Tarnovsky talked for more than one and a half hour in the "Lausanne" room - a sign of destiny (Tr. note: Lausanne is a Swiss city close to the headquarters of the Kudelski Group).
Employed by NDS
The 39 year old American is accused of having been recruited in 1999 by the Israeli company NDS, a competitor of Kudelski, to break the security codes of Canal+ (French Pay TV) and publish them on the Internet, and to have repeated the operation, to the detriment of the Swiss group and its clients. The publication of these codes allowed hundreds of thousands of savvy users to access encrypted TV channels without paying the subscription fees.
The American satellite TV company Echostar also uses Kudelski cards to protect their content. They confirmed having lost hundreds of millions of US dollars due to these pirate activities and demand one billion US$ of damages from NDS, a subsidiary of the media group News Corp.
This April, Christopher Tarnovsky will take the witness stand in a California court in defense of NDS, his employer for ten years following 1997. According to him, Kudelski and Echostar have wholly invented the conspiracy they claim having been victim of in order to mask the weakness of their encryption.
In his eyes, the case against NDS is nothing short of an extortion attempt. "Sure, I've broken the cards of Kudelski", he annoyedly states. "I was paid by NDS to do it. This is an activity that all companies in the trade do. But why would I have published these codes on the Net for free? I am not stupid, and I never had the intention of taking that risk."
Having become an awkward asset, Tarnowsky is no longer employed by the group since a year. He started his own company, Flylogic, through which he offers his know-how to electronics manufacturers, to test the resistance of new products to pirate attacks before they are launched.
Christoper Tarnovsky details the general weakness of systems based on certain chips designed by a handful of companies like Motorola and Infinenon (sic), systems used in products as divers as garage door remotes, car alarm systems and TV decoders.
"Unbreakable? That's wrong!"
"The manufacturers of semiconductors claim that their chips are unbreakable. The companies integrating them into their products trust the specifications they obtain. They believe that their secrets will be well kept. That is wrong, of course."
He showed pictures of his laboratory, set up with second-hand equipment worth a couple of thousand dollars. The centerpiece is a powerful Zeiss microscope to access the heart of the chip, where the precious codes are hidden. Successive layers of silicone are peeled away, using acids and lasers.
The engineer then explains how he takes over control of the card by short-circuiting one by one its protections with long microscopic needles. It takes a few minutes for the weakest of them, a few hours for better designed chips, but the content of the card gives in to these attempts 9 out of 10 times. For such an operation, Flylogic bills "about 30'000 dollars".
When questions were taken, a voice is heard from the end of the room. A Microsoft engineer is wondering: "Did you take an interest in the processor of our Xbox360 game console?" - "I was offered 100'000 dollars to break it", says Tarnovsky. "But I replied that that wasn't enough."
"They didn't invest enough"
The next question comes from an Estonian journalist. His country, forerunner of cyberdemocracy, has introduced a chip-containing identity card, which can be used for e-banking, as well as online voting. "It's a Motorola", sneers Tarnovsky. "An old model, badly protected."
What about the Kudelski cards? A short embarrased silence before his reservations disappear: "Sorry: The last two generations were broken. The next one will be, as well. They did not invest enough into research in the last ten years. Today, Kudelski is running out of money, look at their stocks. They hope to reestablish themselves with this lawsuit, but they will lose."
"""UK - Italy - Germany and other european nations already using Videoguard.
Today's target ? France (Viaccess belongs to France Telecom).
Do you remember the outcome of Canal Plus/Vivendi writ of summons/lawsuit against NDS in front of Los Angeles Court ?
Next victims ? Nagra (Spain and few other)
Who is the hacker ? So easy to reply: a thycoon whose technical laboratories are based in Israel (dont forget Chris Tarnovsky story who became an NDS employee)."""""
anyone know Chris Tarnovsky ??
Interview with Chris Tarnovsky, the Hacker!
Echostar is suing NDS (maker of VideoGuard, DTV's encryption system, and also CEO'ed by Rupert Murdoch) for $1 Billion for damages for piracy and copyright infringement of the Echostar Viewing card codes and for aiding the distribution and supply of pirate Echostar viewing cards for the Echostar owned Dish TV.
A key witness was in Amsterdam on the weekend attending a conference, and spoke to reporters and other interested parties:
Quote:
François Pilet, Amsterdam
Saturday, March 29 2008
The audience is glued to the lips of Christopher Tarnovsky. In front of a podium of hackers and security specialists - with an average age of 25 - the self-taught electronics specialist revealed the techniques that allow him to break open chip cards that block access to pay TV chains in the whole world.
The scene takes place in the Mövenpick hotel in Amsterdam, where the European edition of the Black Hat conference was held Thursday and Friday last week. This is one of the prime professional meetings dedicated to computer piracy. Among the twenty or so speakers invited to this big get-together, Christoper Tarnovsky talked for more than one and a half hour in the "Lausanne" room - a sign of destiny (Tr. note: Lausanne is a Swiss city close to the headquarters of the Kudelski Group).
Employed by NDS
The 39 year old American is accused of having been recruited in 1999 by the Israeli company NDS, a competitor of Kudelski, to break the security codes of Canal+ (French Pay TV) and publish them on the Internet, and to have repeated the operation, to the detriment of the Swiss group and its clients. The publication of these codes allowed hundreds of thousands of savvy users to access encrypted TV channels without paying the subscription fees.
The American satellite TV company Echostar also uses Kudelski cards to protect their content. They confirmed having lost hundreds of millions of US dollars due to these pirate activities and demand one billion US$ of damages from NDS, a subsidiary of the media group News Corp.
This April, Christopher Tarnovsky will take the witness stand in a California court in defense of NDS, his employer for ten years following 1997. According to him, Kudelski and Echostar have wholly invented the conspiracy they claim having been victim of in order to mask the weakness of their encryption.
In his eyes, the case against NDS is nothing short of an extortion attempt. "Sure, I've broken the cards of Kudelski", he annoyedly states. "I was paid by NDS to do it. This is an activity that all companies in the trade do. But why would I have published these codes on the Net for free? I am not stupid, and I never had the intention of taking that risk."
Having become an awkward asset, Tarnowsky is no longer employed by the group since a year. He started his own company, Flylogic, through which he offers his know-how to electronics manufacturers, to test the resistance of new products to pirate attacks before they are launched.
Christoper Tarnovsky details the general weakness of systems based on certain chips designed by a handful of companies like Motorola and Infinenon (sic), systems used in products as divers as garage door remotes, car alarm systems and TV decoders.
"Unbreakable? That's wrong!"
"The manufacturers of semiconductors claim that their chips are unbreakable. The companies integrating them into their products trust the specifications they obtain. They believe that their secrets will be well kept. That is wrong, of course."
He showed pictures of his laboratory, set up with second-hand equipment worth a couple of thousand dollars. The centerpiece is a powerful Zeiss microscope to access the heart of the chip, where the precious codes are hidden. Successive layers of silicone are peeled away, using acids and lasers.
The engineer then explains how he takes over control of the card by short-circuiting one by one its protections with long microscopic needles. It takes a few minutes for the weakest of them, a few hours for better designed chips, but the content of the card gives in to these attempts 9 out of 10 times. For such an operation, Flylogic bills "about 30'000 dollars".
When questions were taken, a voice is heard from the end of the room. A Microsoft engineer is wondering: "Did you take an interest in the processor of our Xbox360 game console?" - "I was offered 100'000 dollars to break it", says Tarnovsky. "But I replied that that wasn't enough."
"They didn't invest enough"
The next question comes from an Estonian journalist. His country, forerunner of cyberdemocracy, has introduced a chip-containing identity card, which can be used for e-banking, as well as online voting. "It's a Motorola", sneers Tarnovsky. "An old model, badly protected."
What about the Kudelski cards? A short embarrased silence before his reservations disappear: "Sorry: The last two generations were broken. The next one will be, as well. They did not invest enough into research in the last ten years. Today, Kudelski is running out of money, look at their stocks. They hope to reestablish themselves with this lawsuit, but they will lose."
bod
Inactive User
UPDATE..........PACKAGES CONFIRMED CLEARING
Packages and channels working with Viaccess encrypt from 2.0 to 3.0 (mixed with other encoding systems or in stand alone mode)
Fransat 5W is the only package running under 4.0 version
Poverkhnost Plus 36° East
Le bouquet de Canal + 26° East
Can***** France 19 East
Orange France 19 East
ART Arabesque 13 East
Grupa ITI 13 East
Sexview 13 East
Cyfra+ 13 East (some channels only)
HRT Croatia 13 East
Orange Polska 13 East
Al Jazeera Sport Channel 13 East
SRG SSR 13 East
British Telecom 13 East
Stellar DBS 13 East
Bis TV 13 East
Orange France 13 East
Hello HD Platform 9 East
Akta Satelit 4.8 East
Bis TV 5 West
Orange France 5 West
ADD 7 West
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TV Globo Internacional Europa-África
KBS World
Deepam TV
Private Spice
French lover TV
X-Dream TV
EuroSport
EuroSport 2
Eurosport 2 Bundesliga
Baby TV
Asianet Plus
Motors TV
Dorcel TV
X-Dream TV
Free-X TV
Free-X TV 2
Club Prive TV
XXX Extreme
MTV
Packages and channels working with Viaccess encrypt from 2.0 to 3.0 (mixed with other encoding systems or in stand alone mode)
Fransat 5W is the only package running under 4.0 version
Poverkhnost Plus 36° East
Le bouquet de Canal + 26° East
Can***** France 19 East
Orange France 19 East
ART Arabesque 13 East
Grupa ITI 13 East
Sexview 13 East
Cyfra+ 13 East (some channels only)
HRT Croatia 13 East
Orange Polska 13 East
Al Jazeera Sport Channel 13 East
SRG SSR 13 East
British Telecom 13 East
Stellar DBS 13 East
Bis TV 13 East
Orange France 13 East
Hello HD Platform 9 East
Akta Satelit 4.8 East
Bis TV 5 West
Orange France 5 West
ADD 7 West
----------------------------------------
TV Globo Internacional Europa-África
KBS World
Deepam TV
Private Spice
French lover TV
X-Dream TV
EuroSport
EuroSport 2
Eurosport 2 Bundesliga
Baby TV
Asianet Plus
Motors TV
Dorcel TV
X-Dream TV
Free-X TV
Free-X TV 2
Club Prive TV
XXX Extreme
MTV
bod
Inactive User
on the venton, waiting for more info
Yeah just what i was thinking, if it is true they will be all over it like a tramp on a kipper..
Si
Digital satellite receiver Venton
Not sure how much these go for, but I bet they have doubled at least in the last few days.
Not sure how much these go for, but I bet they have doubled at least in the last few days.
Price: 229 €
thecoogster
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Not too bad then 240, anyone used one of these receivers? And will there be a cam update for dreamboxes?
Can***** france on 19E is the big one.
I don't think they will go public we will have to wait and see.
I don't think they will go public we will have to wait and see.
Heres the spec of the box.
Venton HD 200S Digital Satellite Receiver
HDTV, USB port and a network interface providing maximum flexibility.
Our "flagship" of Venton HD200S. Integrated power supply and a compact design characterize this receiver.
The easy and intuitive to use, you already know from our test winner: Venton HD100S (SATVISION Issue 07/2009). As an additional feature to you is anetwork interface (Ethernet) for data exchange.
DVB-S2 for digital television in HDTV
SD / HD Unterst6ützung (MPEG 4 AVC/H.264)
Common Interface / Integrated Conax card
Video Resolution 576p, 720p, 1080i
10,000 stations TV / Radio
8 x favorite lists
Channeledit and channel sorting
100Mbit / s Ethernet interface (RJ45)
Minors
Multilingual OSD (English, German, Turkish, Romanian, French, Nederlands, Italiano, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese)
UNICABLE, DiSEqC 1.2 and USALS support
S / PDIF Kloaxial (digital audio or AC 3 Stream)
1 Scart to HDMI x 1
2CI+2SMARTCARD SLOT
EPG (Electronic Program Guide
High Def video output (HDMI and YPbPr)
Software upgrade via RS - 232C / USB
Programmable Timer
Venton HD 200S Digital Satellite Receiver
HDTV, USB port and a network interface providing maximum flexibility.
Our "flagship" of Venton HD200S. Integrated power supply and a compact design characterize this receiver.
The easy and intuitive to use, you already know from our test winner: Venton HD100S (SATVISION Issue 07/2009). As an additional feature to you is anetwork interface (Ethernet) for data exchange.
DVB-S2 for digital television in HDTV
SD / HD Unterst6ützung (MPEG 4 AVC/H.264)
Common Interface / Integrated Conax card
Video Resolution 576p, 720p, 1080i
10,000 stations TV / Radio
8 x favorite lists
Channeledit and channel sorting
100Mbit / s Ethernet interface (RJ45)
Minors
Multilingual OSD (English, German, Turkish, Romanian, French, Nederlands, Italiano, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese)
UNICABLE, DiSEqC 1.2 and USALS support
S / PDIF Kloaxial (digital audio or AC 3 Stream)
1 Scart to HDMI x 1
2CI+2SMARTCARD SLOT
EPG (Electronic Program Guide
High Def video output (HDMI and YPbPr)
Software upgrade via RS - 232C / USB
Programmable Timer
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It could be mate as theres still no sign of the firmware that opens the channels.
Its a case of waiting now to see if anything turns up.
Its a case of waiting now to see if anything turns up.
Just seen this on Youtube. It mensions emu but not sure if its proof since this box is also capable of card sharing.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sIkA40eg14]YouTube - Venton HD200 mit SCT EMU !!!!![/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sIkA40eg14]YouTube - Venton HD200 mit SCT EMU !!!!![/ame]
bod
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dont see any ethernet connection for c/s
I've managed to track down the firmware looks like the news is true but for SCT channels only for now however theres no confirmation.
Just need someone to test and report back.
Just need someone to test and report back.
Reports are that it is def fake from other sites.
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