Could you please give us some clues on what your assumption
of any relationship between Via2 BF ands DreamMultimedia is based ?
Take it easy m8. To get one thing straight. I am myself a dedicated bruter,
and I wish the whole operation to become a success in the end.
I don't tell here how many areas I have made, nor about my trust level, coz
if they can track me down through this, they would kick me out of the team.
But be assured my PC is currently bruting. BF = Big Fun ;)
But why do the user id's of the Via2 BF community members mostly start
with
dt. ? Doesn't this stand for
Dream Team ?
To dismiss any allegations that I am biased toward or against any specific company.
I know all the urban legends about :
R.A., thoic, Lee Gibling, the
suicide of Boris F., the
heart attack of Vorlon,
the hack of S1 and Nagra (by the
Swiss Cheese Group 
) in Haifa, the ...
Without any doubt, N*S has to generate profits and
takes no prisoners,
But it got a taste of it's own medicine when DTV's HU cards were compromised by
unloopers in USA and Canada and the ensuing bungled HU --> P4 card swap.
In North America the playing field is almost level (Kudel vs. N*S), in Europe
it's not bcs $ly UK is not hacked.
But allies and enemies dont remain always the same in history. Communism was
considered the most dangerous enemy of the Western Democracies right after WW2.
From 1989 onwards most
Socialist countries reconciliated with Western democracies
or became democracies themseleves and Islamic fundamentalism became the enemy nr. 1
So simplified fingerpointing and stereotyping leads to nowhere.
Here is a third eventuality:
There is another company which has meanwhile a lead in world market shares
over N*S even, though their system has been widely hacked in Spain, Poland,
Canada (BEV) and USA (Echostar/DishNetwork)
There seem to be some big holes in the
Swiss Cheese
The hack was issued by pros without any involvement of the Italian MOSC community.
Kudels HQ in Switzerland has to develop, market, and maintain now 3 major encryption
standards:
- Nagravision (originally their own product)
- Seca (after the takeover of www.nagra.fr)
- Premiere Aladin (kind of Irdeto1)
Such a diversity is expensive in the long run. The Swiss HQ may decide to streamline
the companies processes by ditching at least one encryption standard.
Why did the hack appear just 2 years after the introduction of S2 ?
Was this the expiration date of any warranty given to
$ly Italia ?
Compromising S2 has 2 strategic advantages for the core team of Nagra:
- Deal a blow to the French competion within the own enterprise.
- Deprive an external competior (Sky) of some of if his revenues in Italy.
