Hack Directv Dvr Hard Drive

Making a Directv Tivo hard drive from my PC What would I need in order to install my DVR hard drive into my PC, to format it and make it usable in my series 1 dvr? Does this require a PC with a different operating system other than Windows? Reformat DVR hard drive for PC use. I have an old DVR from when I was a Directv subscriber. I just can't believe that there is no way to hack into a hdd.

DIRECTV records its encrypted program content directly to its DVRs. The content can only be decoded and played back from the actual hard drive and the actual DVR where it was originally recorded. If you were to connect your hard drive to a PC and copy the data (or mirror the drive), the programs would display a message along the lines of 'content not authorized' when you attempt to play them from the new drive.

There is a solution that would allow you to copy your HD or standard definition programs to your PCs hard drive. You could then then watch the programs on your PC or burn them to DVD. HD programs can actually be burned in HD to inexpensive standard DVDs that will play back in HD on a BluRay player.

If you don't have a BluRay player, you could burn DVDs for playback in a standard DVD player. You can also create files from your DIRECTV DVR programs that will play back on your iPod, iPhone, XBox 360 or PlayStation 3.

We offer this solution on my company's website. However, I am a new poster in the CNET Forum and am not certain if it is permissable to post additional company website information here. Can anyone provide more information on 'moving' content? I've got a HD21-700 which has bit the dust, apparently bad sectors mhdd and other tools can't fix the problems. From what you all are saying it sounds like the disk filesystem is one that would be reconized by windows? I find that odd, but with the latest boxes suppporting the file streaming maybe not. I know the drive can be accessed, but there are enough problem where the drive will bail out of the dvr tests with error codes of 70 or 71 on the surface test.

Once the drive errors out with these errors it's a whole new restart before being able to do anything else. Mhdd is currently working through a sector scan, but the remap attempts have been failing with ABRT errors, and I'm not yet sure how to get around these. (they're acutally hanging mhdd which isn't good.) I'd like to be able to get the drive up to be able to see what's on the system before sending it back (the replacement HR21-100 arrived yesterday and I need to get the old one back soon, ie before any software update) If I can get the system back I can burn DVDs of anything important, but at this point I can't do anything. Thanks for any advice on this!

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AT&T’s DirecTV has a serious vulnerability in one of its components, researchers warned. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg If you’re one of the millions of people who’ve signed up to AT&T’s DirecTV service, there may be an easy way for hackers to get into your home and spy on you. That’s because of a vulnerability that’s yet to be fixed in a core part of the Genie digital video recorder system that’s shipped free of charge with. The issue resides in the wireless video bridge that lets other DirecTV devices communicate with the Genie DVR over the air. In this case that’s the Linksys WVBR0-25.

Security researcher Ricky Lawshae, from Trend Micro DVLabs, was able to immediately get data from the device’s web server as there was no login page. From there, Lawshae was able to determine the device would accept commands remotely and would do so at the “root” level of access.

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That meant he could run almost anything he wanted on the Linksys device, a fairly shocking vulnerability, even by today’s low standards of home tech security. “It literally took 30 seconds of looking at this device to find and verify an unauthenticated remote root command injection vulnerability. It was at this point that I became pretty frustrated,” wrote Lawshae, in an advisory shared with Forbes ahead of publication Wednesday. “The vendors involved here should have had some form of secure development to prevent bugs like this from shipping. More than that, we as security practitioners have failed to affect the changes needed in the industry to prevent these simple yet impactful bugs from reaching unsuspecting consumers.” The video below shows how quick and simple Lawshae’s hack was, taking him less than a minute to execute. Spying via the TV Lawshae handed his findings to the Trend Micro-owned ZDI Initiative, which attempted to disclose the vulnerability to Linksys.