[53088] in Cypherpunks
Re: [NOISE] Cable-TV-Piracy-Punks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sun Mar 31 19:37:22 1996
To: Randy Catoe <Randy@mci.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:56:25 EST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:12:23 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Randy Catoe writes:
> The proof would be in the pudding, would it not? Are their
> documented cases of smartcard scavenging?
There are documented cases of similar reverse engineering. I don't
know of any specific cases of smartcard scavenging but its all
essentially the same tools.
Whether it is financially worthwhile to do this is another story.
.pm
