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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Digital+ hacked ?

The last days a strong rumour about Digital+ (Spanish satellite platform broadcasting in Nagra2 and "Nagra2 over SECA" on Astra 19.2E and Hispasat 33.0W) being hacked using a good known brand programmable decoder. Is it true ? In the past there was a lot of this rumours (a friend of my son see a hacked channel in a friend home,....) none of them was reliable, but this one seens to be true.

I do not have the supposed decoder needed to hack the Nagra2 Digital+ stream, so I can not verify it, but many respetable people says that it is working.

If this hack gets confirmed in the next days it will jeopardize the global Kudelski Nagra2 streams around the world (currently Kudelski is the market leader in Digital TV conditional access systems after the buy of Canal+ Technologies and its SECA system) which will include the new USA ones (Bev and Dish) and the german Premiere ones. Will this mean that USA ones will be hacked ? No, but historically when a system exposes a flaw this flaw will be used to expose another flaws generating a reaction chain in code exposure and finishing with a complete card dump (Game Over).

Exposing the facts in the rumour, the hack attacks ROM 101 in Nagra2 streams provider ID 4101; this means that both satellites (Astra 19.2E and Hispasat 33.0W) are covered by the hack as some days ago Digital+ starts to broadcast the Nagra2 stream over the Astra satellite too, in order to allow new clients to use the Astra satellite with the Nagra2 decoder (seens that old SECA decoders are no longer manufactured).

Next days will be very interesting, will the provider react patching the current Nagra2 cards, changing its revision, will it deliver new Nagra2 cards ? The last days of this summer will show the strong of millionary security inversions.

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