Originally Posted by
Skolink
I've got friends who work at a company with an NDA with Broadcom, but they couldn't persuade the appropriate person to provide any info. I'm always on the lookout for some one else..
I've just imported a Series 2 DT. The first step was converting the PSU to 230V, now I need the PAL version of the NTSC Samsung tuners, and also the registry settings for the BC chips (different again from those on the standard Series 2).
Series 2 seem to be more plentiful on Ebay now than Series 1.
The info will come out sooner or later. In the mean time I'm trying to source some tuners (not the same as in the Series 1).
Cheers,
John
I presume you're talking about my former employer (who doesn't need to be named here). There's only a select few there who have the ability to download arbitrary documents. Even if one of those people is your contact I'm still not sure if they'd help you. Broadcom's docSAFE system is extremely clever as it automatically watermarks, passwords and re-words each download of a document making it unique to the person who downloaded it. When you take that and think about leaking information that's kinda scary for the individual involved as you are personally accountable for that information. Generally one hangs onto copies of datasheets and doesn't let them out of their sight.
So now our only hope is down to someone having access also being a hardcore TiVo hacker (unlikely) as they would have to distill the needed information into a hack themselves as just "passing on" large chunks information to another hacker would be too risky as you don't know where it's going to end up and some of that may have been unique to your copy of the document.
So by some miracle the above two circumstances have occurred and the S2 is now hacked - S2's are flying out of the country for use in situations that don't profit TiVo. I can imagine an instant political ****storm between TiVo and Broadcom. Broadcom would launch an instant investigation as to how this information "got out". The first thing they'd do is check who downloaded that document recently (you'd probably be the only download in 2 years as the chip is mostly used by TiVo) A little further amateur forensics and you're busted.
You try being a TiVo enthusiast working in that area - it freaking sucks. Probably ten times more frustrating than being the person trying to hack it.
I know that like the post of "example3891" my post has once again been negative and unhelpful but this is the situation many people themselves in thanks to corporate greed and vicious guarding of intellectual property. Some day someone's going to have to do something extremely brave and just throw it out there. (Maybe someone terminally Ill who works for a company that's about to go bankrupt. Now we're talking :-)
Last edited by inaxeon; 09-06-2008 at 08:08 PM.
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