Viewsat Owners Busted.

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SAN DIEGO - A North County resident and two Florida men were indicted for allegedly trying to h**k new encryption codes used by the DISH Network satellite television service, it was announced Monday.

Jung Kwak of Oceanside, along with Phillip Allison, 35, and Robert Ward, 54 -- both of Seminole, Fla. -- are charged with conspiracy to violate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitch Demblin.

The 33-year-old Kwak is the owner of Viewtech Inc. of Oceanside, which imports free-to-air satellite receiver boxes and sells them to the public through retailers.

Though free satellite programming is limited, the boxes marketed under the "Viewsat" name are popular because owners can download code to mimic DISH Network smart cards, allowing free viewing of the service's channels, Demblin said.

However, in late 2007 and 2008, DISH Network sent subscribers smart cards with a new encryption code, which meant owners of Viewsat boxes would no longer receive free programming, Demblin said.

The prosecutor alleged that in March 2008, the defendants decided to hire computer h**kers to determine the new encryption code in order to save the market for their boxes.

Kwak bought a special microscope to analyze the smart cards and paid $20,000 cash for photographs of a purported new smart card, Demblin alleged.

Kwak also allegedly offered $250,000 to obtain the memory of such a card, he said.

The prosecutor did not divulge whether the defendants made any progress.

Demblin has filed a motion to hold Kwak without bail. A hearing is scheduled Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge William McCurine Jr.

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[dayglo77]

well that sucks, from the sounds of it i guess the viewsat guys had the connections, regarding n3. too bad they got caught. bummer
"i hope not", but this could be the death of the possibilty of working n3 standalone bins, for a long long time,

[Finley904]

Hear talk that the other 2 were The Broken and TDG does not look good for viewsat

[dalerulesu]

It was NOT Cyphris

This is just more stuff stemming from the Allison (thebroken) bust.

[easydoesit]

Thats bad! it wont stop the real hackers. Not based in the USA.......Easy been around since the H card Days..

[panin02]

hope they find whoever snitched on them and put their head inside a card reader to fin out why,whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??? lol

[oneone23456]

Originally Posted by easydoesit

Thats bad! it wont stop the real hackers. Not based in the USA.......Easy been around since the H card Days..

back in the day my grand parents were pulling in black and white channels from 300 miles away

not much of a technological gap between a huge antenna and the h card

but the n3 is new technology

sounds like you are implying that because the h card was hacked the n3 will be hacked by the same people

let me see if i can pull in some n3 channels with my grand dad's the huge antenna i will post my results in a few

[vice]

Well thats a bad news about those 2 guys but once they don,t caught everyone that hacks we are still in good luck

[tinvicbrigre]

No need to worry y'all. This is old news.

[wrangler]

Phillip Allison aka "thebroken, aka OddityGiven, aka, well, I'm not going to go there as it would open a can of worms, was busted at least nine months ago and supposedly had the N3 hack which he is now trying to give away but no one will get within ten miles of him. I wonder how many other people he's going to take down with him so as to get a lighter sentence. I know some very nervous people out there that are just waiting for the axe to fall.