DirecTV sends out such signals about twice a month, but according to The Carmel Group's Sean Badding, intrepid pirates can effectively block ECMs using devices called emulators, or if that fails, reactivate a "burned" card using a "card strip box" that connects to a personal computer.

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Officers also recovered an electronic strip containing batteries and a camera, and a black bag being carried by Sorin contained a computer device.

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"We completely strip each of the browsers' processes of all their privilege to access the rest of the computer, " says Linus Upson, Google's engineering director.

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