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Chris Gerlinsky
@akacastor
@akacastor@mastodon.social - Wanna be hacker, code cracker, slacker, wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers. (he/him)
Feb 10, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
@philpem I spent a lot of time playing (along with many others) with nd13-based glitchers in the 2000s - fond memories.

I don't think I have the original nd13.asm source, but here is a commented disassembly: nd13dis . asm

pastebin.com/h8ng6rKn @philpem Here is ndish . zip from 18 July 2004, including asm and txt files and a schematic, posted by no1b4me.

dropbox.com/s/585nj32cw59h…
Oct 29, 2018 • 26 tweets • 7 min read
The pirate business isn’t always friendly - November 30 1996, RON.EXE released by pirate DirecTV hacker “Fast Eddie” included a rant directed at competing Canadian pirate Ron Ereiser. It was also the first “freeware” hack shared on the internet for DirecTV.

#tvpiratehistory This was a significant release for DirecTV hackers. At the time of RON.EXE, there were not many options available to the public for programming DirecTV smartcards - pirate dealers kept a tight grip on the few hacks developed.
Oct 24, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A table of contents thread for my satellite TV pirate history of the 90s/2000s series. There are still a lot of untold stories - I will share more memories as they come up.

The thread with each story will be linked below.

#tvpiratehistory Image If this kind of history interests you, think about supporting @internetarchive - without the Wayback Machine, a lot more hacking history would already have been lost forever.

archive.org/donate/
Oct 24, 2018 • 45 tweets • 12 min read
A thread about a small piece of hacking history - memories of the DirecTV “HU card” and the pirates that hacked the smartcard to watch free satellite TV.

#tvpiratehistory The smartcard used by DirecTV after the “H card” became known by pirates as the “HU” card. This was the third smartcard series for DSS (P3 card - period 3). Sometimes referred to as “the football card” because of the artwork on the back of the card.
Oct 19, 2018 • 59 tweets • 11 min read
A thread with some of the story of the “battery card” - the first pirate card sold for hacking DirecTV in the mid 1990s.

#tvpiratehistory The battery card was a PCB slightly longer than a credit card, with chips on it to emulate a smartcard. Visible on the top of the card when inserted in a satellite receiver was a coin cell-type 3V battery.
Oct 17, 2018 • 58 tweets • 10 min read
In a Discord chat, a link came up to an article from 2008 looking back on the 2001 “Black Sunday” countermeasure against DirecTV satellite pirates. I wanted to tell a bit of what I remember of the background to Black Sunday for some additional context.

blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the… In the late 90s and early 2000s, satellite TV piracy was a big business. Online streaming, at least anything practical for home users, didn’t exist yet. 56K dialup modems were standard. Satellite TV was unbeatable both for selection as well as quality.