OT: ECM strike

[randomwalk101]

Off topic: DTV sent out what called the biggest ECM strike of the year....anyone here got hit?

[SteveW]

Yup.

[vincentc]

Don't know yet. Pull my card last night around 9pm after I got a call from a friend. I have my sub card in now and will check the status of the programmed one tonight after work.

Charlie

[Holden]

I'm still paying for my DTV. Someone clue me in on the alternatives and how they could possibly have couter measures.

Thanks,

Greg

[rjaffey]

Check out http://www.tcup.f2s.com

[SteveW]

HuHack is the best of that group. It was up during the entire mess last night. Man, DTV worked late to cause all hell to break loose. I just read that people hacked DTV website and were redirecting it elsewhere.

I am thinking that the Hu hack will finally go mainstream rather than a few guys having it. If anything research on it should pick up. Worst part is that my real Hu card is acting up now when i re insert it, I am gonna have to call and bitch later on at them. Damn Dave.

Steve

[rjaffey]

I wouldn't say it's "super ancient". It's probably less than six or seven months old. Certainly recent enough to answer Greg's questions and explains enough to satisfy anyone who's merely curious. You're right though, as fast as things are changing, the most up to date info is best for folks actually using it.

From someone who's merely curious, thanks for the better links.

[MouhadIb]

yeah our system got hit w/it a while back. We sent the card out to Koin. THey should be sendinghte card back sometime this week with the patch to this ECM. We have Dish Network.

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[SteveW]

Dish is different than Direct, Dish is supposedly easier to hack than DTV. DTV sent a really nasty attack yesterday, wiped out all the old H cards and hit our Hu card by accident as well. Dumb asses.

Steve

[randomwalk101]

The bad news: the ECMs wrote 4 bytes to "write once"
area of the EEPROM, 8000h-8003h. Unfortunately, one of
the bytes that is changed is 8000h, which is checked
extremely early in the ROM startup code (003Fh) to see
if it contains "33h". These ECMs re-wrote this byte to
"00h", which means that it very quickly enters an
infinite loop because "P1.7" is not set. Since this
area of the H card is "write once", there is no way to
reset this byte back to "33h" to allow normal startup
to continue, even by way of an unlooper...ECM writes
to the write-once area, permanently marking your
H-card as unusable for eternity.