Anyone know about the security for the DSS system? (A US satelite TV system with 18" dishes). A buddy disconnected his for an extended period, and on plugging it back in, got all the channels for about 5 minutes.

So now I'm all curious if we can reproduce this.

Adam

Apparently the content is not strongly encrypted in a way which requires that one be a subscriber to recover it, since there is a "test mode" which displays all the channels, including unassigned ones. I've not seen a document describing their protocols in detail, however. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch@zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}