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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars But two weeks ago a jury in the civil lawsuit against that employer, NDS Group, largely cleared the company -- and by extension Tarnovsky -- of piracy,...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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Google Military-Controlled Satellite: 'We Don't Feel Lucky'

2008-09-08 13:41:55 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Google Military-Controlled Satellite Reaches Orbit, We Don't Feel LuckyAccording to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now. It reached orbit yesterday, but in reality, it's not an ordinary commercial satellite: it's fully controlled by the Department of Defense's U.S
 
Tags: ordinary commercial satellite, satellite reaches orbit, resolution commercial satellite, google, geoeye-1 satellite, orbit yesterday, department, defense, reality
 
 
 
 
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Satellite Hacker Tells All

2008-05-31 17:45:10 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars But two weeks ago a jury in the civil lawsuit against that employer, NDS Group, largely cleared the company and by extension Tarnovsky of piracy, finding...
 
Tags: satellite, rupert murdoch company, tarnovsky, nds guilty, extension tarnovsky, company, satellite-tv, nds, satellite signals
 
 
 
 
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Gait Analysis from Satellite

2008-09-09 12:22:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...satellite footage, JPL engineer Adrian Stoica says it should be possible to identify people from the way they walk -- a technique called gait analysis, whose power lies in the fact that a person's walking style is very hard to disguise Video taken from above shows only people's heads and shoulders, which makes measuring the characteristic...
 
Tags: gait analysis, shadows, correct shadows, human shadows, data, gait data, regular gait analysis, video, satellite video footage
 
 
 
 
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Inside America's Satellite-Killing Missile

2008-02-15 21:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The weapon that the Pentagon wants to use to shoot down a failing satellite is well-tested. But its one weakness could pose a problem, as the military tries to take that satellite out
 
Tags: satellite, pentagon, weapon, weakness, military, pose
 
 
 
 
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Experts Scoff at Satellite Shoot-Down Rationale

2008-02-15 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud. Space security experts are calling the rationale "comedic gold
 
Tags: space security experts, toxic gas cloud, spy satellite, comedic gold, rationale, pentagon, threat
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon to Shoot Down Rogue Satellite

2008-02-14 19:15:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Despite cautionary notes from space security veterans, the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March
 
Tags: space security veterans, pentagon, spy satellite, cautionary notes, earth, march, hit
 
 
 
 
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Thalys Hits Glitch in Impressive Train Launch

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2008-05-14 15:50:22 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...satellite-backed service pulls down 2 Mbps of ruinously expensive backhaul, compressed to provide speeds that feel like 4 Mbps. (Read: faster for email, TIFF images, certain PowerPoint presentations, and Web pages with gzip disabled; normal rate for JPEGs, GIFs, compressed Web pages, and PDFs The service will cost first-class passengers not a...
 
Tags: train, service hit glitches, glitches, service, service pulls, train operator, satellite, satellite technology, nokia siemens
 
 
 
 
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GPS Spoofing

2008-09-17 07:03:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...satellite simulator to create a fake GPS signal. Portable GPS satellite simulators can fit in the trunk of a car, and are often used for testing. They are available as commercial off-the-shelf products. You can also rent them for less than $1K a week -- peanuts to anyone thinking of hijacking a cargo truck and selling stolen goods In his...
 
Tags: gps, fake gps signal, signal, gps satellite simulator, truck, victim truck, victim cargo truck, stronger signal amplifiers, cargo truck
 
 
 
 
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Sorry, Qantas, No Unfettered Broadband

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2008-09-18 10:33:20 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...satellite coverage that was just remediated a few weeks ago (see below). The first plane with limited service, a new A380, should be in flight 20-October-2008 I hate in-flight broadband To Qantas' credit, note that each seat on the plane will have a laptop opower socket, a USB port, and a multimedia system that can show 100 movies and 500...
 
Tags: satellite coverage, coverage, service, service involves, internet service, in-flight broadband plans, plans, inmarsat satellites, inmarsat