I once saw this at some hotel. I'm sure it must have been an illegal one... The guy had this strange decoder, with a strange unfamiliar menu. But it was running DSTV. The decoder was called Astrovox/ Astrobox or something of the sort. How does that work? I mean, if he was paying the full amount for DSTV, he would get a proper decoder, right? Must have been some Asian thing!

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:55 PM, George Njoroge <themburu@gmail.com> wrote:
Keep me in the loop for the findings, will be getting DSTV for my home soon and I need such tweaks if not hacks :)


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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Mash <kihahu@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm almost thru with my investigations. Results soon!!

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:02 PM, kris njoroge <krsnjo@gmail.com> wrote:
The question here is how is he able to smabaza it to all that want it with all the channels to your tv like the way u get tv from your arial...


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Paul Gichigi <paulgichigi@gmail.com> wrote:
Trust Kenyans to indulge, share info when you do have it, wouldn't mind the bucks myself.....


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:17 PM, John Macharia <kihahu@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe he talked to guys in Asia b4 they were disconnected n he
inherited the info. Whatever it is he's using, I'll need to know. But
i'm sure he's not into anything deep. N i won't b suprised if it's
locally available stuff that Jst requires some manipulation.

On 3/17/10, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
> @John, I'm going to try and limit my comments as it maybe becoming spammy to
> others. :-)
>
> Firstly, as per your description and charges, it seems that the guy is no
> hardware hacker nor low level programming specialist because it would take
> ages to master any encryption system especially based on a chipset. Can you
> imagine prodding a processor bus timing bursts? With what? Who has such
> equipment here? The workings of such an encryption systems are not public
> knowledge so you have to sketch out your analysis and understand the
> buses/timings. You have to be very very very good, maybe too good in your
> skillset. Just a simple question : Do you know who uses 20-50Ghz
> Oscilloscopes in KE? Even if you take the code approach, you still to be
> very good with PIDS to request data and have chipset info to do this. To me,
> seems he is an RF guy who knows how DSTV operates in many areas such as
> commercial ones. The only explanation I can think of is that he may have
> inherited some equipment from a hotel/apartment and thus the whole thing
> could be a pretty twisted affair due to smart card account info
> manipulation. I'd stay away from such.
>
> Me amatuer thots,
>
> Rgds.
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:08 PM, John Macharia <kihahu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand that Asia was removed from it's coverage coz of such
>> hacks. Encryption is conc but still, that guy has it n he charges  500
>> per month per 'subscriber'! I'm hoping he's not the only guy who can
>> do that coz i'm puzzled.
>>
>>
>>
>

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