How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card

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)!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hacker
• satellite
• tv
• smart
• card
• chip
• hack
• security
• Tarnovsky
• technology
• wired
• Wired

[daletec1]

guys, Chris makes his living finding the vulnerabilities in these conditional access systems. He will hack it for Nagravision, but not for a bunch of internet free-loaders. I don't blame him one bit. The big trouble happens when one provider pays him to hack their competitors sytem and then the competitor does the same thing. He is now older and more mature, like the rest of us. He has come a long way since his Biggun days!!! V

[j7x54]

in russia cards hack u

[WindowsSoftwareDe]

wow! this is so complicated

[DracoAzule]

So I guess my hairdryer and paperclips won't work.

[Makinnoz13]

is this legal? i really dont care but i wanna know

[dalorick]

@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]

@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]

fake hacker , working for chip lab ,, yea right

[MichaelMantion]

@TheOlor12345 Is there a hack for that??

[MYBIGKINDHEART]

@b0wlcut it could be your connectors such as hdmi cables

[eekcage]

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