It looks like mobitv didn't see this one coming - or did they just bury their heads in the sand?The service streams live TV to mobile devices (no need to visit the site if you are not in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru or Dominican Replublic) and being the provider of such a service you would think they have a secure platform for content delivery.Or not... Someone posted on HowardForums detailed instructions on to access the service and a direct link to a single file that allows acess to the entire service. The file in question (qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd) seems now to have been removed, but until this whole thing started it was available to anyone to access it - no authentication, no encryption, nothing.Basically the trick was to download the file, and using your browser open the local version to then have access to many of the live TV streams offered by Sprint to their customers.The folks at mobitv didn't like that someone posted detailed instructions on HowardForums about this and sent out a notice. They actually contacted the hosting provider to have the HowardForums taken down.What's wrong here? First, I agree detailed instructions on how to go around getting free services is a bit too much.But on the other hand mobitv created a content delivery platfotm that would not guarantee access to members only, apparently lacking authentication, encryption and possibly more.C'mon guys, sharpen up. If you create a service, make it right. Don't plan on putting the locks after the doors are wide open. You should have done this before. You have your system fixed, Be sure to create better system next time.As for HowardForums, leave the forum alone. For what I read it's wasn't even posted there first, because the poster says this was found in another Sprint forum somewhere else on the Internet.
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