Directv Self Destruct

[watdahel]

Anyone else notice if Directv sends a self-destruct signal to their receivers that fries the receiver card when you cancel service? Mine are showing browning around the gold contacts of the cards. It's not too far fetched. Directv have said the cards can not be reused or transferred to another receiver as they are tied to the initial receiver only.

 

[razel]

I'm not sure about the physical damage, but they may. I remember back in the day when DirecTV cards were hackable just how INCREDIBLELY clever the DirecTV engineers were. They slowly push out innocent little updates over to cards until one day it all came together and nearly all hacked DirecTV cards were hosed.

 

[imagoon]

The cards don't fry, they are just deactivated. There is a small processor in them and they more less blank the code.

 

[smitbret]

Almost all DirecTV access cards have scorch marks around the gold contacts after a week or less of use. It doesn't mean anything and affect your service in any way.

 

[Pacfanweb]

I'm not sure about the physical damage, but they may. I remember back in the day when DirecTV cards were hackable just how INCREDIBLELY clever the DirecTV engineers were. They slowly push out innocent little updates over to cards until one day it all came together and nearly all hacked DirecTV cards were hosed.

I remember that.

"Black Sunday/Monday", whatever day of the week it was, is what they called it.

I had a friend who was doing the cards for everyone at his work. They kept updating the cards, and he kept having to re-burn everyone's card to keep them working, then BOOM. They were all locked. I lol'd, as he had gone out and bought all the crap to do them with.

 

[Engineer]

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