| ▲ | HeyLaughingBoy a day ago | |||||||
It's even older than Stuxnet, but either Dish Network (Echostar) or DirectTV did something similar in the early 2000's/late 90's. They were having a lot of trouble with pirate receivers, so they added small chunks of code to normal device updates and this went on over a period of weeks/months. On the final update, it stitched all those bits of code together and every receiver that wasn't a legitimate one displayed the message "GAME OVER" on the screen and stopped working. Obvs it was a long time ago so forgive me if I get some details wrong. | ||||||||
| ▲ | 1bpp 19 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
https://www.theregister.com/2001/01/25/directv_attacks_hacke... The code apparently permanently wrote an infinite loop into hacked smart cards' firmware, bricking them. | ||||||||
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