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Article #2892Re: Any way to CREATE Vcr+ codes?
From: cepek
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:47
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:47
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In article <29287@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) writes: > I'm one of the people the "broke" the codes. It isn't that simple. : > The algorithm was created by many, many hours of research. : > You don't have to collect published codes, you can just sit down with the > VCR Plus+ device and start punching in numbers. But there are 9,999,999 > 7 digit codes (and each one requires 9 button presses to test), so it can > take a long time to get enough numbers. > > This is at least part of why we stopped working on the codes. It was > taking too much time. OK, let's see. Break out the old, klunky hot-box computer. Warm up the solder gun. Use an I/O port to "press" the buttons on the unit, and read the output with a(n infrared?) detector. Push RUN, let it go for awhile, and then look at the gathered data. It may not be trivially easy (the funnest things often aren't), but it doesn't have to be slow. Just a-dreamin'...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!vixvax.mgi.com!cepek From: cepek@vixvax.mgi.com Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Any way to CREATE Vcr+ codes? Message-ID: <1993Jan6.144742.2474@vixvax.mgi.com> Date: 6 Jan 93 14:47:42 CDT References: <1iaa91INNhgr@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan5.191138.16420@netcom.com> <29287@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Organization: Management Graphics, Inc. Lines: 19