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by pvachon
2595 days ago
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To be fair, while the channel rights enforcement is done "client side," the real work is likely done by an M-Card in your set-top box. This is a secure environment that contains hardware to support decrypting MPEG streams on the fly. The M-Card is able to decrypt key bundles that are sent out-of-band and in-band in the video streams. The bar to get channels you're not subscribed to is quite a bit higher because of this mechanism, alas. |
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Its a MITM. Packets are being changed on the fly. It being a MITM doesn't mean it works. Nor that it works world-wide in 2019. The term MITM isn't descriptive enough by itself.
Perhaps this worked in Bulgaria in 2016? I'd like to see some proof that he got HBO to work though. I didn't see that clearly specified.
I mean, for public transport they were still using (the insecure) Mifare Classic in 2016 in Bulgaria. See this post from the same blog [1]
[1] https://xakcop.com/post/cloning-rfid/