On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:16:52 -0400, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:

Oren wrote:
Bull****. 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 bull****

--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."