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Still More on News Corp. Hacking Charges
Spike and others wrote in about this ongoing saga: subsidiary of Vivendi claims that a subsidiary of News Corporation cracked their satellite TV smart cards and posted for public download. (See our previous stories.) Two new stories from the Associated Press and Yahoo note that although the two companies are apparently dropping the original lawsuit (since News Corp. is making a large investment in Vivendi), Echostar is now claiming they were hacked too and the U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible criminal charges.
I've heard a saying that 'fighting leads to love'... It seems like it applies to companies too ;-)
But I can't see any reference to a shred of proof in these articles.
So why did I read them?
-S
We Apprentice Developers and Designers
I am sure there are copyright issues here. So how come a large corporation is able to get away but Dmitri Skylarov is still in jail? It always seems to be one rule for corporations and another rule for everyone else and yet another rule for the government.
It was only yesterday (*not kidding*) that one of the bigger Vivendi owned satellite TV (Canalsat) upgraded it's encryption system to "Seca2".
But I'm afraid the Seca2 system is DOA as it has already been cracked by Italian Crackers.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
They're still twisting the English language to their own ends. They need to explain why users have to install their new cards, but "security" sounds so much friendlier than "to protect our revenue stream", despite the two being far from synonymous...
delight: The text of the article gets the term right, saying that their smart cards were "cracked".
dismay: The text then misuses the term again, saying Echostar was hacked.
Come on folks, if a site that supposedly is "news for nerds" can't get the term right, how is anyone else expected to?
(and don't give me the BS that hacking and cracking are the same thing)
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Ann Coulter writes:
;)
> It's people like you who are destroying this
> country. You people feel entitled to everything
> that you can never achieve with your godforsaken
> attitudes. There were places in the world where
> people like you poisoned with your way of
> thinking. Your post isn't even funny. Joking about
> the confescation of property is an assult on the
> principles of this nation.
Oh, for crying out loud, it was a joke! iainl was parodying what they thought Echostar was doing. iainl has a perfect right to do so, under the United States' First Amendment to the Constitution.
> Major corporations made this country Great.
> Civilians should not have the same rights as
> corporations because they do not contribute as
> much to our nation.
So sorry, but we are a nation "of the people, by the people, for the people" according to Abraham Lincoln. The Declaration of Independence states that it is men that are created equal and given rights that can not be taken away, and lists among those "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." No mention of nations for the corporation, or any rights given to the corporations (a very recent concept).
> The only ones who should be allowed to sue (and
> reap irreperible damage to a corporation) are
> corporations who have as much at stake.
Thankfully, that isn't the case. Sometimes lawsuits are the only way to reign in greedy sharks that are negligent enough to make defective products that kill people. Of course, if corporations were always responsible and fair, there would be no reason to sue them.
> Our Nation is founded upon the concept of a
> Constitutional Republic(tm).
Didn't know that was a trademark of some corporation.
A constitutional republic simply means that the citizens elect representatives to represent them in Congress. The representatives make the laws (following, in theory, the wishes of those who elected them and not the corporations that bribe them), and the whole process is governed by the Constitution.
> We have class separations that must be enforced.
Only if you are a snooty patuty rich person.
> An average Joe Sixpack, or a mass of them,
> should never wield the kind of power deprive
> companies of millions.
Yeah, well, a mass of corporations (and their greedy CEOs) should never wield the kind of power to deprive Joe Sixpacks of 7 trillion dollars of retirement money. But they did.
> On the other hand, News Corp. has every Right to
> hack their competition because they dominate the
> market. People recieve more rights as they
> ascend the ladder, and it should be that way or
> otherwise we would have a ruling mob.
Please quote the section of the Constitution that says this.
> Those of you who believe in a parity between
> Corporate rights and civilian rights are
> socialists.
There is no parity. Corporations still do not have all the rights of a citizen, and they never should. I am a citizen of the United States of America. News Corp. is not.
> The fact of the matter is that America is an
> aristocracy and that is what makes this nation
> Great.
No, what makes this nation great, despite all its warts and mistakes, is the great ideals on which it was founded, and the courage and compassion of its people. Justice makes us great. Liberty makes us great. Life and Happiness make us great.
Greedy sharks, their willful actions and their bribes, are the problem, not the solution.
"The path of peace is yours to discover for eternity."
Japanese version of "Mothra" (1961)