[53036] in Cypherpunks
Re: [NOISE] Cable-TV-Piracy-Punks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Sun Mar 31 01:39:18 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:21:38 -0800
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos), kooltek@iol.ie (Hack Watch News)
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 6:10 PM 3/29/96 -0800, Mike Duvos wrote:
>kooltek@iol.ie (Hack Watch News) writes:
> > The most dangerous thing in all this is that the smart
> > cards that have been hacked in Pay TV systems throughout
> > the world are also used in other applications. The expertise
> > and the knowledge of reversing smart cards is now more
> > common in the Pay TV piracy business. There is always the
> > possibility that these skills could be applied elsewhere.
>
>Perhaps in the private sector, where snake oil abounds. I
>suspect military types do things a bit more cleverly than the
>prior scenario implies.
This observation has direct application to the Mondex electronic cash system.
Bill
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