Is VOOM TV hackable ?

[B_Zarre]

Did anyone hear about this one?
I was wondering what are they using Nagra or Nagra2 or may be something esle?
www.voomhd.com

[SecurityRisk]

Something else that has been failed to be hacked as of yet. Saw one site offering a "open" card for $500 - money order only - SCAMMERS - site is gone now - thank God.

[normsbro]

voom uses the motorola irds like cable and starchoice....unhackable as far as i know

[knight4ever]

i believe that with enough computer power and enough smarts, any system should be hackable. if the signal comes thru the air and is scrambled, then in theory it should be hackable. if the providers use a computer program to secure their signals, then a computer program should be able to unlock it. just my thoughts on the subject.

[jimmy]

It's been awhile since I've talked to the cable hackers, but I know of one guy who was able to modify his motorola, kind of like how irds are jtagged except this was a permanent soldering, so that he was able to back up his image, order pay per views and whatnot with either a filter on or the sending line disconnected, and then reflash with the good image afterwards. Not an easily done hack, but they're working on it. This other thing might be utter nonsense, but a guy told me the other day that on the newer digital cable boxes there is a line on the back that runs from the box and then back into the box that has something to do with communicating with the server and that if the lines are switched, pay per view information is not relayed to the cable provider. Of course I haven't verified this or even seen the newer boxes, so it could be bogus just like the cable filters.

[playme1979]

hacking a two way system is pretty intense and foolish unless you truly know what your doing if you dont then your just asking for trouble

[leet83]

Voom is Digicipher 2 encoding, it is what replaced the old videcipher modules in the 80's that everyone set up Big Ugly Dishes for. It has been completely uncompromised for 12 years...Pretty expensive system to use as you have to pay General Instruments (motorola) royalties for using it... It is sad to say but I don't think it will ever be compromised...also the loop on the back of the digital receiver is most likely an IF loop which seperates the QAM receiver/decoder from the rest of the unit, so yes most likely b.s. and as playme said hacking a two way system is extremely intense and foolish unless you pretty much designed the receiver/transmission system yourself...

[SecurityRisk]

Not 100% sure - but pretty sure that voom does use an access card - so there is some hope.

[RoadKill56]

Not 100% sure - but pretty sure that voom does use an access card - so there is some hope.


wish their was a hack for the plus board and them big ugly dishes.....

[leet83]

if anything the card may complicate matters, as I understand Digicipher 2 with the cardbus expansion is even higher security than standard DCII, If someone breaks this it will be huge news and the people that provide programming to Dave, Charlie, Voom and everyone else will have to implement another system...just remember nothing is impossible! I would love to see DCII be cracked, that would be truely awesome.

[dssturbo1]

if someone is gonna crack it they better do it quick. doubt voom will last too long with the pitiful number of subs they are getting and with dish and dtv ramping up for more hd in the future.

[Dish it.]

if someone is gonna crack it they better do it quick. doubt voom will last too long with the pitiful number of subs they are getting and with dish and dtv ramping up for more hd in the future.

LOL thats the reason the west va. mushrooms where never truly hacked when the net came along they where old tech and not everywhere would let you stick one of those big ass uguly things in a yard. it was not untill 1995 or so congress passed a bill that allowed all to have a 1 meter or less dish on their property any nay neighborhood no matter where in the U.S so DSS and Dishnet happened about the same time as the net so none really gave a rats ass about the W/Va Daisey's. Its kind of like learing to hotwire a Ford T model.