Scott Greczkowski said:
Dish is hacked, Bell ExpressVu is hacked.
They both take measures to fix the problem and 10 minutes later hackers are watching TV again.
Dish should have looled a long time ago about moving over to new security such as Digicypher II which has still not been hacked and it has been out for years.
While I dont disagree with changing things out, my understanding from what I have read on the net is that the only reason Nagra 2 was hacked was becasue a disgruntal ex-employee released the keys - and that was what was needed for reverse engineering Nagra 2.
This is essentially no different than what happened with DVDs - a small software company in Germany iirc had an employee that released the keys which opened up pandora's box.
Learning their lesson, BluRay and HD-DVD will have revokable keys which might be another PR nightmare - but its not a one size fits all situation.
I find it comical when I overhear people talking about BR and HD-DVD with peeps thinking that once they come out they will immediately be hackable and they believe they will be able to play with them as they do today.
Are they in for a surprise. DVD *might* not have been broken to this day if it was not for someone divulving the keys.
With that in mind, I am not sure how much more secure the other systems would be if you had ex-employees with information on the keys that opened the system up.