Let's all take a step back and view what's going on....
FTA is down and out. Or so DISH wants us to think.
A similar fate befell us when the HU went out and the P4 came in.
What's different?
Well, when the HU went out, no manufacturer or importer had any major funds tied up in it. What? Ok. Maybe some HU cards and some Loaders/Unloopers, but nothing significant. So who would work on a fix? The software gurus who
- wanted the challenge
- wanted the resulting $$$ if they were successful
With FTA, it's different. Because they are not selling "scripts and Script Support" or cheap loaders/unloopers, they are manufacturing and importing 1,000s of FTA receivers.
In the case of the major distributor of Ariza products, he has at least 1 warehouse full of receivers, another few containers on the ocean, a few thousand more receivers being built, and the huge payment he had to make to software developers for the last fix to the tune many times $100,000 dollars. Add it all up, and this manufacturer alone has millions tied up in useless inventory.
Multiply this across Viewsat, Pansat, Coolsat, etc. and you see the picture. So if each of these guys pours a $1,000,000 into "whatever it takes" getting things working, they will do it or risk losing all previous investments.
This scenario never occured with HU to P4 switch, so the pressure wasn't the same to get things done.
So, in short, the chance for an FTA hack is not nearly as bleak as the one for P4. The FTA hack stands a much better chance of success because of the enormous amount of $$$ behind it giving it a push. With a similar $$$ push, the P4 could be just as easily hacked. Hell, they are just chips made by man. And tiny ones at that, that basically trickle down to the very basic bits of 0s and 1s in assembler.