The Tale of Sonicview's Bulletproof Bin (The Nagra 3 Fix)
D*sh Network L.L.C., Ech*star Technologies L.L.C. and N*grastar L.L.C. Defendants: Sonicview USA, Inc., Sonicviewra LLC, Sonicviewsa LLC, Roberto Sanz, DontPay4TV, LLC, Duane Bernard, Courtney Bernard and DOES The following is an excerpt from file 2008-08-21_16196721647_sanz, Case 3:2009-cv-01553, Document 6-4, of a Telephone conversation between Defendant Roberto Sanz and a Confidental Informant.
This conversation goes into detail of how the "Bulletproof bin" came about. - AZA
SANZ: SonicView has -- has developed -- I didn't want to tell you to much about this before --
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: -- but it's been in development for the last six months.
CI: Oh, Yeah.
SANZ: I just kind of one -- just kind of one of the reasons why we're out here. Okay?
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: We developed the card -- okay, you -- you know how the card reader works, right? You know --
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: -- you know the card -- you know how IKS is working, based on the card technology?
CI: Yeah, yeah.
SANZ: Right? And they're using the card, and they're transferring the data basically. What -- sometimes when the regular boot files go down, the IKS is still running because it's on --
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: -- card technology, and the card didn't go down, right?
CI: Uh-huh.
SANZ: So we reversed-engineered the card and the card reader and developed it into a little microchip, okay?
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: And this chip plugs into the Sonicview 360.
CI: Wow.
SANZ: We already have a spot in it because we have been planning it for six months.
CI: Wow.
SANZ: You put this chip inside the Sonicview 360s. This chip --
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: -- is only going to cost us around $15, and we're not going to make any profit on it.
CI: Wow.
SANZ: But what happens is, it doesn't work as a card; it doesn't work as a card reader; it doesn't work as anything like that.
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: We built a machine that will take the card, rewrite the code, the technology --
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: -- and make a bulletproof but for Sonicview.
CI: Oh.
SANZ: And the long end, you have this card in there, which means that the IKS dosen't go down if the card doesn't go down. Sonicview, with that bulletproof chip in, will not go down.
CI: Oh.
SANZ: This is the IKS killer. It's going to shut down Cody, K1 Heros; all of them. K-Box is dead --
CI: Nice.
SANZ: -- Nfusion is dead. We've been testing it for the last few months.
CI: Okay.
SANZ: We already have the prototypes; I'll be able to show you a sample when you get here.
CI: Yep.
SANZ: All right. For the last two months, every time Dish went down, every time that went down, we did not get hit on the bulletproof bin.
CI: How beautiful. Beautiful.
SANZ: This technology, now, we have a few different things in place.
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: We may be able to take that bulletproof bin after we write it, because it's going to take us two hours to write the code --
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: -- for the bulletproof bin with the card technology.
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: I mean, the reason why Viewsat and all these other models go down is because there is something in the card that they didn't exactly copy to the T, so they can change something minor, and everybody goes down. You know what I mean?
CI: Yep, yep, I do.
SANZ: So with this -- with this installed, it's going to be pretty crazy, you know. So --
CI: Yeah.
SANZ: -- let's say the card goes down, and IKS goes down --
CI: Uh-huh.
SANZ: -- then as soon as the card comes back up, we'll have a guaranteed bin file for the bulletproof bin in two hours. So let's say they switched to Map-58, okay --
CI: Yep.
SANZ: -- or Nagra3 --
CI: Yep.
SANZ: -- as soon as the card coders hack the cards, just like they did with Co*lSat and the card reader back in the days, the Sonicview will be working in two hours.
CI: Oh, beautiful. You know what you --
SANZ: Which means --
CI: -- what you take into account?
SANZ: ViewSat and everybody is going to be down for months, and we're going to be up and running.
(Read the entire conversation - Court Document at http://www.ftamax.net.)
A_Z_A, I know you from elsewhere and I don't remember you being too much of a nut so I'll accept this rumor for what it is - with the requisite pinch of salt of course - and not laugh at you.
I am especially comforted by CI's enlightened responses. He/She didnt say "cool" or "awesome" even once. I think SANZ has his hand up the back of his/her shirt!
