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 From: Mike Traffanstead <traff@roadrash.org>
 To: "'lwn@lwn.net'" <lwn@lwn.net>
 Subject: DirectTV and "Black Sunday"
 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:20:11 -0600
 In your article you state that DirecTV programmed the receivers to destroy
 themselves.  This not quite the case.  DirecTV programmed the access cards
 to go into an infinite loop, thereby denying access to ill-gotten services.
 The cards can easily be replaced by setting up a proper account with DirecTV
 and no damage is done to the actual receiver.
 
 The best analogy I can think of is if someone "acquired" an account on the
 lwn server and you went through and removed it.  You didn't actually damage
 anything, you just correct something that should not have been in the first
 place.
 
 Mike Traffanstead
 (No relation to DirecTV)
 
    
 Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:09:03 -0700
 To: lwn@lwn.net
 From: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com>
 Subject: DirecTV war
 
 Hi Liz and friends.
 
 Like many Canadians I am a "pirate Satellite Dish" enthusiast.  Why?
 Because it is free? not really.  Because our fine government up here
 imposes Canadian content, so to see the programming from the US we
 have to go this way.
 
 Anyway, back on topic: "Black Sunday" was not that big a deal. really.
 Why?  They managed to destroy the boot portion of the ROM code on the
 programming cards.  Already we have new interfaces that take the
 programming cards, and have programmable logic on them.  Now we can
 hack the signal even better, and we can now "firewall" our hardware
 from their signal feed.  So, onwards up upwards, better equipped than
 ever.  A buddy in the satellite wars builds the card wedges, and has
 sold or taken orders for over 8,000 in the last month already.  On top
 of that quite a few people have abandoned the program card route
 entirely now, and are using pure emulators for their
 interface/translators.  An old PC, some code and 2 serial ports, and
 that is it!  So, as you can see, the game is not over. As a matter of
 fact it is just getting going..
 
 With our best regards,
 
 Maurice W. Hilarius       Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
 Hard Data Ltd.            FAX:       01-780-456-9772
 11060 - 166 Avenue        [15]mailto:maurice@harddata.com
 Edmonton, AB, Canada      [16]http://www.harddata.com/
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 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:43:36 +0100
 From: Laurent Szyster <l.szyster@ibm.net>
 To: letters@lwn.net
 Subject: BIND vulnerablility
 
 > Bind vulnerabilities have, in the past, been widely
 > exploited. It would be nice if it were different this
 > time. The information and the updates are all available;
 > the exploits do not yet exist. People who move quickly
 > need not worry about this problem.
 
 People who replaced BIND by djbdns don't have to worry
 at all about BIND's apparently infinite number or
 buffer overflow ;-)
 
 See:
 
   [17]http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
 Laurent Szyster
 
    
    
                                                                          
    
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