[chrismwilliams]

I have telewest with sky sports etc., Im visiting my gran this weekend, she also has telewest but no sky sports.

Does anyone know if i can just take my smart card out and use it in my grans STB and get my sky sports.

I dont see why not as i can still only watch it in one place.

I phoned telewest but the guy just told me it was illegal becuase then i could watch sky sports in two houses at once , i tried to explain that i couldnt cus id take the smart card, hence disabling the STB, but he didnt seem to grasp the concept so i politely ended the call

If anyone replies could they confirm wether they have done this or are just guessing? Ive already guessed i can.

Thanks

[TomMartin]

the smart card will be tied to the MAC address of the set top box, so i doubt it would work .

[TW_Ric]

No, you won't be able to do this; as TomM stated, the smartcard is 'paired' to your set top box, and so you'll just receive a message telling you that the smartcard is invalid.

The reasoning behind this is to prevent fraud. Although (as far as I am aware) it is not possible to 'copy' a smartcard as yet, if it did ever become possible, this pairing of cards to boxes would prevent any unauthorised copies of smartcards being used.

R.

[chrismwilliams]

Thanks guys, that makes sense!! Although its a bit annoying!

Just a little extra question then , if I was realy desperate, could I take my box and card together and use my grans incomining cable?? or is there something downstream of the box to thwart me???

thanks again

[TW_Ric]

Although you're not strictly supposed to .... there's nothing to stop you!

(and yes, it will work fine)

[kayos]

It is possible to copy smart cards, you just have to know a little bit about ISO7816 and the command set used.

Shoudnt be too hard to sus out tho.

yeah but theres no point if it just works in your own box??

[kayos]

If i could be botherd (but i cant) i could probably sus out what flags, registers etc need to be changed to swap a smartcard to another machine.

But as its illegal, i will do no such thing

[Steven L Hunter]

Originally Posted by TW_Ric

Although you're not strictly supposed to .... there's nothing to stop you!

(and yes, it will work fine)

I have tried this and it worked in my grans house but that was when she had analogue, now that she has digital i tried it and only got front row ads on every single channel. Also i tried the smartcard thing, it decrypts the channels that are paid for on the smart card but you just get a blank screen and a smart card invalid message so it's not really worth the hassle and i know how you feel about having less channels at your grans, i even persueded her to upgrade to more channels but i just got a reply that it costs too much money

[cydine]

Originally Posted by kayos

If i could be botherd (but i cant) i could probably sus out what flags, registers etc need to be changed to swap a smartcard to another machine.

But as its illegal, i will do no such thing

Hahaha. This thread is hilarious.

Yeah, it's really that easy to hack cable


Just take the whole box and card with you. It will work on any digital enabled telewest line.

[kayos]

Originally Posted by cydine

Hahaha. This thread is hilarious.

Yeah, it's really that easy to hack cable


Just take the whole box and card with you. It will work on any digital enabled telewest line.

Yeah, ive been hacking sims since skool mate, im not saying ive actually hacked tw, just that i theoretically find it possible, using equipment i allready have

[carl.waring]

School? You can't even spell "Chaos" correctly

Oh, and you can't 'hack' digital cable due to the head-end knowing exactly what's going on with your box. (As far as I know!)

[kayos]

1. Kayos doesnt mean chaos.
2. You can hack wot u want, if u know how.

[Technick]

Oh sorry! I seem to have stumbled into the under 12s cable forum, i'll leave and look for something a little more grown up.

[DevoidDroid]

Not to turn this into a hacking thread but there it certainly is possible to hack digital cable and quite easily from what I've read online. There are forums which told how to hack digital cable over a year ago. Mainly from the same people who were leaders in the whole onDigital / itvDigital hacking.

[TomMartin]

i thought you weren't allowed to discuss breaking the law on these forums ?

[DevoidDroid]

Originally Posted by TomMartin

i thought you weren't allowed to discuss breaking the law on these forums ?

Quite right.

It is possible. But it's illegal and shouldn't be done.

Back to the original subject, I dont see what would be wrong with taking the box and card with you. Unless moving the box to a different address is against telewests terms.

[carl.waring]

There is nothing wrong with taking the card and box with you. Other than the fact that IT WON'T WORK!!!! Plus, it's TWs property, so you shouldn't really be messing with it anyway

[Steven L Hunter]

Is it not in the terms and conditions of Telewest that the box is property of Telewest and should not be removed from the property your account is with unless advised to?

[cydine]

Originally Posted by cwaring

There is nothing wrong with taking the card and box with you. Other than the fact that IT WON'T WORK!!!! Plus, it's TWs property, so you shouldn't really be messing with it anyway

Of course it will work. Why wouldn't it?

One cable feed is the same as another.

[zenith52]

won't it depend on if you are moving it from one region to another, such that the Network ID might be incorrect for the area that you have moved the box to?

Zen