TV cards people ... It's time for new action as I have gone chasing the card model from Nagra systems for TV.

The card model is ST19XL18... I have figured out a new way of dumping the eprom. The card's memory is having several roms. (3 ROMs and 1 EEPROM) The whole thing is about DSS hacking. Sadly there's no DSS in Chennai, only cable TV

I got lucky when I met a 24 yr old from Portugal who asked me for help and it's really cool to know that weak crypto algos like DES are still used in TV cards. The whole aim to do all this to see more/all channels for FREE

We have finally made it ... he was happy and so am I... I learned something new and new hardware to play with.
The best part was all this was done remotely with me just supervising about the hardware/cables/connectors and the binaries were sent to me by email. He co-operated with me a lot and Iam proud that we did all this within 1 week. Hehe ;-))

Given below is a small working of our old 64-bit algo.
>> A short write up on DES by the Matthew Fischer <<
Courtesy: Zone-H.org

Cheers

Update: If anybody wants the ST-7 opcodes email me

Rediff website has introduced a service/page for searching the approximate air fare for cities inside India only. The service is still beta and it's named Faresearch.

You can check out >> the service here <<

I found this while checking my mails in my almost extinct rediff a/c :))

Cheers

Car engines are amazing and they can be more fun sometimes, but paining as well.

To know their details can be fun, but to draw maps of their connections can really be a pain in the ... well , it's happening now and I accidentally sleep these days just too much unusually. So time is still one step ahead of me.

Car and computers are inter-related and I knew how only from ... some kind ppl who told me the things written below :-)

As technology advanced, so did the electronics that go into cars. The ECU in a modern automobile, together with advanced engine technology, makes it possible to control many aspects of the engine's operation, such as spark timing and fuel injection. The ECU may also control valve timing, boost control (in turbocharged engines), ABS, the automatic transmission, and the electronic stability control system. All western cars like Nissan/Volvo/BMW/Skoda/Renault that have been manufactured after 1996 have ECU in them. The first ECU was seen in early 1970 as per Wikipedia. ECU means Electronic control unit or sometimes, called Engine control unit.

My Embedded RE project has something do with the ECU only :-))

Twenty dont's for ASP developers
The article is precise and exactly to the point , making it more easier to read and understand.
It's a must read for all developers who use ASP.

Courtesy of Security Focus

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