"Dave" wrote in message
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CW wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
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Digital is a major step toward "conditional access".

So is analog. If you don't have the proper reciever, you can't pick it
up.
Just a different format.


That's not what conditional access means.

Conditional access has been done with analog -- but not well. I sucessfully
defeated analog scrambling with two different home-brew devices but I never
tried digital. Too hard.

It's much easier to hard-code C/A with digital.

Just my two cents.