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- From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Yet Another Descrambler Question...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.065314.23746@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <athos-301292211047@kip2-34.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:53:14 GMT
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- In article <athos-301292211047@kip2-34.apple.com> athos@apple.com (Rick Eames) writes:
- >I recently found this newsgroup, so if I am bothering people, please be
- >patient. A friend of mine's father just had his descrambler (8 years old)
- >zapped by the cable company.
- >
- Zapped? What do you mean? Smoke now comes out of it? Or does it just not
- descramble any more? If it doesn't descramble any more, perhaps the cable
- company broadcast control signals that the descrambler is designed to
- listen for, and it will shut off when it receives the right code.
-
- >How in the hell can they do this? I could understand on the new two-way
- >systems, but on the old A/B one-way systems, how could they "zap" a system?
-
- basically, certain descramblers are built to stop working if they get told
- the secret-magic-auto-destruct sequence (you know, same way Capt. Picard
- can lock out the helm with the right code words :-)
-
- I don't _know_ of any that actually destroy themselves, or at least
- permanently damage themselves; but they could easily do it by making
- the descrambler turn on a voltage that erases all its microcode, or
- blow a fuse...
-
- > If they can do this, how could one defeat it?
-
- build/hack a descrambler to ignore or bypass it.
- >
- >******************************************************************************
- >Rick Eames My Opinions Are My Own (not
- >Apple's)
- >athos@apple.com
- >Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Boxer.
- >******************************************************************************
-
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