…Confessions from a signal hacking expert This a mixed talk, between technical and business point of view of the topic. The Dos are split into two: tech side & non-tech side, and same for the don’ts. As I work daily hacking streams for monitoring reasons, I record streams from 7000 stations (TV and Radio channels). This presentation is an explanation of the weakness of some securities, against the strengths of some techniques, based from my expertise on how much difficult is for our team to hack a signal. Which streams are unhackable? Which securities are recommended? Which securities doesn’t work at all? How some securities are bypassed? In this longer version of the talk we’ll dig further into technical details with real life examples. Firstly in the presentation we see the does and don’ts on the technical side, with some responses to the previous questions. We’ll show how to extract URL parameters from IPTV broadcastings that are using some blockings and/or encryptions. Secondly, we’ll talk about the subject from the non-tech point of view: how piracy can affect the companies, how to struggle it, and some recommendations about the topic. I will include 2 use cases, one is Rojadirecta.com website in Spain (which used to be an illegal football streams website) and the other one is about Game of Thrones (HBO’s famous TV series and most pirated TV show of the history). And thirdly, we will end with the conclusions and recommendations. Presented at Demuxed 2019 in San Francisco.