Brian Dorsett reverse-engineered the NDS satellite access smartcard known as the HU card.
Recorded a blog from prison labeled Prisoncast
Currently out on federal probation
Courts did not initially believe he was capable of reverse engineering the Direct TV hardware, thought he had an accomplice
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