KevAtlanta
2004-12-05 15:19:33 UTC
Both Dish and DirecTV as well as ExpressVu seem to finally be getting
the message and are making efforts at securing their signals and
shutting off those who steal from them. This is a positive move that
is LONG overdue and I praise all of them for doing it- finally. The
fact is that this issue would have never came up if the services
mentioned had employed top notch security to begin with. Services such
as Star Choice which use the highly secure DigiCipher system have
never been compromised. They have enjoyed paying viewers while the
other services have spent time fighting hackers, writing ECMs and even
trying to get the courts and police to do what they should be doing
which is securing their signals. With no or low signal security, a pay
TV service won't be in business very long. That lesson was learned
from ONTV which everybody hacked. This is not only dishonest but a
threat to the very survival to the pay TV business. Cable seems to
have got the message and deployed highly secure digital systems. They
still need to move the analog cable channels over to the secure
digital format and hopefully soon they will. Now the satellite
services are finally deploying much more secure cards that will soon
hopefully put the thieves out of business for good. They need to speed
up deployment and shut off the old cards as soon as possible.
the message and are making efforts at securing their signals and
shutting off those who steal from them. This is a positive move that
is LONG overdue and I praise all of them for doing it- finally. The
fact is that this issue would have never came up if the services
mentioned had employed top notch security to begin with. Services such
as Star Choice which use the highly secure DigiCipher system have
never been compromised. They have enjoyed paying viewers while the
other services have spent time fighting hackers, writing ECMs and even
trying to get the courts and police to do what they should be doing
which is securing their signals. With no or low signal security, a pay
TV service won't be in business very long. That lesson was learned
from ONTV which everybody hacked. This is not only dishonest but a
threat to the very survival to the pay TV business. Cable seems to
have got the message and deployed highly secure digital systems. They
still need to move the analog cable channels over to the secure
digital format and hopefully soon they will. Now the satellite
services are finally deploying much more secure cards that will soon
hopefully put the thieves out of business for good. They need to speed
up deployment and shut off the old cards as soon as possible.