From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:41:46 +0800
To: kooltek@iol.ie (Hack Watch News)
Subject: Re: [NOISE] Cable-TV-Piracy-Punks
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At  6:10 PM 3/29/96 -0800, Mike Duvos wrote:
>kooltek@iol.ie (Hack Watch News) writes:
> > The most dangerous thing in all this is that the smart
> > cards that have been hacked in Pay TV systems throughout
> > the world are also used in other applications. The expertise
> > and the knowledge of reversing smart cards is now more
> > common in the Pay TV piracy business. There is always the
> > possibility that these skills could be applied elsewhere.
>
>Perhaps in the private sector, where snake oil abounds.  I
>suspect military types do things a bit more cleverly than the
>prior scenario implies.

This observation has direct application to the Mondex electronic cash system.

Bill


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