At 6:10 PM 3/29/96 -0800, Mike Duvos wrote:
kooltek@iol.ie (Hack Watch News) writes:
The most dangerous thing in all this is that the smart cards that have been hacked in Pay TV systems throughout the world are also used in other applications. The expertise and the knowledge of reversing smart cards is now more common in the Pay TV piracy business. There is always the possibility that these skills could be applied elsewhere.
Perhaps in the private sector, where snake oil abounds. I suspect military types do things a bit more cleverly than the prior scenario implies.
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