Xm radio hacking

Many users enjoyed a few years of free service thanks to certain plans offered by Sirius, but the benefit has not lasted forever. The access to the network for free was made on purpose by Sirius for old users so that those loyal users of the service could have access for life, but what they never realized was that there was an error or bug allowing access to material published by Sirius for free to a wide audience.

This bug went unresolved for many years, which could have created a huge gap between security and the black market. A company called TippingPoint, learned of the problem in the system, in the programming that managed the radio service, which happened when the Zero Day Initiative of the company, which is an entity that pays hackers to reveal technical details in the security of the systems so that the company TippingPoint reported to Sirius in the information related to the access error.

A possible theory of the impact that this illegitimate access by people is the fact that radio receivers have been created in inhospitable places where it has receptivity of the radio signal for life, which could generate losses of millions of dollars to the company Sirius.

A relatively positive thing is that these material access failures did not affect the safety of users in general, but simply that more people could access the Sirius radio illegitimately. The TippingPoint company did not determine how many people were aware of the problem, but it was noted that there are many people doing the radio hacking, according to Forslof, who is a security response manager at TippingPoint.

Sirius is a gold mine for many hackers, as we are talking about approximately 20 million subscribers. Not only because of the reach of people it has but the type of quality content it must transmit. You can! Samimy shows you how to hack a remote controlled toy car and make a super secret hard disk drive in your computer, accessed via a secret activation key.

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Re:almost slashdotted, hurry up and get to it Score: 5 , Insightful. Isn't it stange that the FCC says that they can't regulate satelite TV, but then they turn around and prosecute people who hack the signal?

Either you can regulate satelite transmissions or you can't. Make up your mind! Although the article said that this was a "pristine digitial copy", XMPCR never did that and this doesn't look like it does either. Sure, it makes digital copies, but only after decompression through their lossy proprietary codec, conversion to analog, and then lossy recompression. The Real Hack would involve recording the original digital bit stream unencrypted, of course and recreating XM's codec so you can play it back exactly the same way a normal XM receiver would.

Re:not The Real Hack Score: 2. Does an obscure interface as a copy-protection mecahnism? Because I'd say it was just circumvented. It's not like they are trying to get the service for free. This is for subscribers who want to use the service differently. You can make MP3's off of broadcast radio too. Some Facts Score: 5 , Informative.

From the manufacturer: With this cable and our software you will once again be able listen to XM satellite radio in your home or in your car using the included Hybrid eXeM interface along with the xmDirect The SDK is available for developers that want to continue using xm radio within their applications. A cool picture: This picture [timetraxtech. What is going to happen: Someone is going to get the crap sued out of them.

Re:Some Facts Score: 4 , Informative. Many feel the PCR was on its way out regardless which was part of why many sites were selling at steep discounts in the month or two prior to its disappearance.

This unit is basically just a pinout converter, maybe with level adjustment and such. The software must use the XM Direct protocol, which is different from the XM PCR protocl and has not yet been published by anyone, even those who created this system. Another system at xmfan. They've done nothing wrong. Only in this case the head unit is a PC, not a car radio. XM Radio isn't hacked.

Someone recording sub-CD-quality music from a device they're required to have a subscription to use is a hack, yes, and may even be a good one if there are no native outputs Saying "XM Radio got hacked" brings to mind ideas like 1 someone's broken the subscription requirement, 2 someone's broken into XM servers, 3 someone's taken over XM's broadcast satellite system, etc.

Re:XM Radio isn't hacked. Score: 3 , Insightful. Hacking is just making a system do something it wasn't designed to do Yeah, just like "telegraphing your punch" means to tap out "your punch" in morse code, right? One terrific advantage of this hack will be combining XM and Sirius satellite radio receivers. Why choose between different channels in the same medium by buying one of two available boxes? It's like buying an AM or FM radio in the s. Integrate two sets of HW into a device with one UI, as long as it's unified for user operations.

Like with a single "bookmark" list of mixed channels; it will be simple enough to hide its inner complexity under the hood. Re:join the bands Score: 2. While your idea has merit, it seems rather expensive. That's a rather expensive advantage. In the s, AM radios still cost some money, and FM radios cost a lot. And money was worth something like 5x or more today's dollars before inflation , especially for electronics.

Let me put it another way. And in my opinion sounds just as good if not better than today's radios. To put this into today's sat technology context with. That tech was cheaper, because it was less complex, and built on more existing tech. We'll get over this investment hump, achieve economies of scale. I doubt satellite radio will return us to the golden age of radio - I pay to watch commercials on cable.

But I think a unit that combines XM and Sirius will drive down prices, and create a larger overall audience. And a software front end will allow 3rd party programs for se. I'm with you. Satellite will really boom as DSP, radio and power tech evolves to allow some bidirectional comms. And intersatellite comm lasers promise a huge wireless bandwidth backbone.

The most interesting contributions will come from different user interfaces from their differe. I'm not sure how putting an XM and a Sirius together really helps. There are a lot of things that are different about the two. Sirius, has no "commercials. I think you'd prefer it if you had a single UI for both, so you could choose among channels, without the extra complexity, however small, of switching satellites.

This XM hack is a start, which could also include third party playlist browsers and schedulers. Keeping it simple to use is the key to enjoying it. I remember in the good old days, not only was it legal to hack the stuff you bought, you actually OWNED the stuff you bought. Heck, I'm old enough to remember back when all electronics came with schematics! I'd love to have schematics for the stuff I buy now. Schematics simply don't exist any more.

The chips that go into digital radio contain logic that has been synthesized from behavioral models. No one, not even the architect of the chip, ever sees a gate-level schematic or logic diagram. I'm not talking about chips. For example, I found a cell phone with a pretty cool little screen on it. If I could find a schematic I could figure out how to run it without blowing it up. Without the schematic I'm going to have to guess which is power and which is video. I've got the model number off the actual screen.

Google searchs have been fruitless. I've never seen "complete documentation" from anything I've bought in the last 20 years, so as to your last point, I have no idea what you're talking about.

What is XM Radio? Re:What is XM Radio? XM Radio and Sirius are two companies who have started offering satellite-based audio for a monthly fee. Oh, the ignorance, the ignorance No one has "hacked" XM Radio. Several companies have come up with a way to add and PC-controlable tuner interface between the XM Direct radio. No big deal. This issue does not concern the FCC since the service itself is not being stolen as was the case with sat TV service.

Two are in use, one at work and one at home, and the third is my spare gotta have my XM. I was just thinking yesterday Re:I was just thinking yesterday But it does have 24x7 news channels fox, cnn, headline, msnbc, etc.

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