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Posted by Oren on October 16, 2007, 10:53 pm
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:16:52 -0400, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
<mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com> wrote:
>Oren wrote:
>>> Bullshit. In 15 years with DirecTV they have never called for any reason.
>>> On the few occasions I've needed to call them we discussed the offending
>>> receiver and none of the others were even mentioned.
>>
>> Bull Malarkey. Wasn't the smart card just brought to market in 1999?
>>
>> From '99 - ' 01 hackers had the upper hand on DTV. Why would a hacker
>> of digital signal, even be talking to DTV? It certainly would not be
>> because the receivers still in the market were hackable. The reason
>> DTV asked for the information and numbers.
>
>
>Who said anything about hacking? I don't hack nor did I hack back in the day.
>Every now and then there'd be a reason to call them... say, the locals dropped
>off a set for some reason. I'd call and they'd do whatever they do to get it
>working again. We never talked about any of the other sets. Nor were any of
>the sets plugged into a phone line. They're still not.
My comment was directed: that yes, the provider of digital satellite
would dicuss various units with the customers. HallerB's comment (cut
out) was not bullshit
--
Oren
"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens
constantly."
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