to the access card. USW stands for Direct TV P4 Card Update Status Word, and simply counts the number of times the card has been updated. A card with a
of 5 has been updated 5 times, for example. Signal, Satellite Signal Theuse of this good data.
It is specifically the waves of encrypted data that are sent down from DirecTV’s satellites up in space. When you tune to a channel, it is
encrypted. The access card then computes the card says the channel is authorized, it descrambles the signal for the television.
Programming smartcard reader/writer that plugs into your computer’s Direct TV P4 Card serial port and permits a hacker to read and write to any
such as the access cards. Update Access Card DirecTV’s means of providing certain programming to certain households,
that the card cannot be tampered with using a standard smart card reader/writer. In the span of DIRECTV, there have been 3 different
generations, or versions of the Direct TV P4 Card, and they are named according to the letter that precedes the identification number. In
chronological order, these cards were the p, the Hu, and the p4. If you buy a DIRECTV system today, it comes with a HU, because
the first two generations of cards were susceptible to security hacks- people found ways of breaking the cards security, and adding their
ndustry standard in smartcards, known as standard smartcard programmer can read and write these cards with
the proper software. CAM ID A unique identification number present on the memory of each and every Direct TV P4 Card, and also the rest of them.