I had to laugh this came to me via e-mail and I had to just shake my head and wonder what idiot did this. DirectTV sometimes sets up underground hacking sites in a “sting” operation. About 6 months ago a hot dss underground site called dssprophet.com came on the scene, BUT when you run a “whois” you’ll see who owns that site:
Registrant: DIRECTV
Registrar: Dotster (http://www.dotster.com)
Domain Name: DSSPROPHET.COM
Administrative Contact: nelly_kardakova@dc.kirkland.com
Technical Contact: prophet, ph0nix ph0nix@dssprophet.com
1-800-347-3288
It appears that they figured that people would not check them out. These individuals who have been buying smart-card technology for the purpose of hacking a DSS system have been paranoid in the first place. I wonder if they actually caught anyone.