Re: [NOISE] Cable-TV-Piracy-Punks

>"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>
> > Or to people with access to scanning microscopy techniques
> > like STMs or AFMs. I suspect that there are lots of
> > techniques that can be successfully used. It used to be that
> > using them required the sort of facilities only available at
> > a large semiconductor manufacturer, but now I suspect that
> > it would be easy for a student at a major university, and
> > probably less easy, but still perfectly feasible, for a
> > person working at home with lots of sophisticated but fairly
> > available equipment like STMs.
>
The proof would be in the pudding, would it not? Are their 
documented cases of smartcard scavenging?

Randy Catoe writes:
> The proof would be in the pudding, would it not? Are their 
> documented cases of smartcard scavenging? 

There are documented cases of similar reverse engineering. I don't
know of any specific cases of smartcard scavenging but its all
essentially the same tools.

Whether it is financially worthwhile to do this is another story.

.pm