IP: DirecTV vaporizes hacked smart cards: : Good Morning Silicon Valley Fri Jan 26 12:00:14 EST 2001

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>DirecTV vaporizes hacked smart cards: Satellite television venture DirecTV 
>has foiled the efforts of signal pirates everywhere. Over the course of a 
>few months it furtively broadcast, byte by byte, a program that this past 
>Sunday allowed it to permanently disable 
><http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D143>pirated 
>DirecTV access cards. Indeed, DirecTV's maneuver, following a number of 
>failed attempts to achieve the same ends, was so effective that many in 
>the <http://www.hackhu.com/news.htm>satellite TV underground are referring 
>to Sunday January 21, 2001 as "Black Sunday."
>
>Mobile phone handset venture abandons "unsatisfactory" mobile handset 
>portion of business: Mobile telecommunications colossus Ericsson today 
>said it will 
><http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/075268.htm>curtail 
>production of its mobile phone handsets to stem losses in what it 
>describes as an "unsatisfactory" portion of its business. The handset 
>developer made the announcement as it reported a fourth quarter profit 
>below expectations, sullied by significant losses in its mobile phone unit.



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