Unlooper

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-007348",
  "term": "Unlooper",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A hardware device that communicates with a smart card to recover one whose microcontroller has been trapped in an infinite loop, a state called looped. Pay-TV hackers used unloopers to repair satellite access cards that an anti-piracy update had disabled by writing a corrupting instruction. The device writes a corrected value into the card's memory, after which the card can run again.",
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Unlooper",
    "es": "desbloqueador",
    "fr": "déboucleur"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/unlooper/"
}