DirecTV Exacts Revenge on Hackers

Slashdot has a hilarious story about DirecTV cleverly retaliating against hackers who were stealing the DirecTV. Using the automatic update feature of their system, they were able to literally destroy the hacked cards people were using and for a kicker rewrote the first 8 bytes of the now useless cards to read “GAME OVER.”

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