A team of hackers claims to have remotely disabled a pirate set-top box using a technique that can be repeated at scale.
A team of hackers from Brazil have taken first place in a hackathon organized by the country’s telecoms regulator. The challenge was to develop a solution to prevent non-approved ‘pirate’ set-top devices from functioning in people’s homes. The team say they were able to remotely transfer code which completely disabled a target device. Once implemented, “there will be a general failure in most of the irregular boxes in use,” the hacker predicted.
“Let’s make the people safe by opening wide a back door so we can go in and disable their stuff. Of course no malicious party will ever want to use that access”
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“Let’s make the people safe by opening wide a back door so we can go in and disable their stuff. Of course no malicious party will ever want to use that access”