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Sky Videoguard upgrade - new cards to follow?
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<blockquote data-quote="easysat" data-source="post: 11819" data-attributes="member: 175305"><p>I agree with the comment that it must be a pre-emptive strike especially as the Link Research note referred to a change to the NDS Verifier circuit in the Videoguard circuit. This seems to be a function that checks the card to see if it is genuine or not.</p><p></p><p>Imagine that you are NDS and you're trying to sell your system to some Asian country that's moving to digital television. Your best argument is to tell the potential customer how rival CA systems in Europe have been hacked. So the last thing you want is a problem to suddenly surface now especially as there are companies around who might well have partially analysed the existing Videoguard algorithm. If you are Rupert and had already budgeted for a card swap every two or three years, you might well decide to go ahead and reissue the cards just to be on the safe side.</p><p></p><p>My 2p's worth of speculation...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="easysat, post: 11819, member: 175305"] I agree with the comment that it must be a pre-emptive strike especially as the Link Research note referred to a change to the NDS Verifier circuit in the Videoguard circuit. This seems to be a function that checks the card to see if it is genuine or not. Imagine that you are NDS and you're trying to sell your system to some Asian country that's moving to digital television. Your best argument is to tell the potential customer how rival CA systems in Europe have been hacked. So the last thing you want is a problem to suddenly surface now especially as there are companies around who might well have partially analysed the existing Videoguard algorithm. If you are Rupert and had already budgeted for a card swap every two or three years, you might well decide to go ahead and reissue the cards just to be on the safe side. My 2p's worth of speculation... [/QUOTE]
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