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.

Comments

Re:"Security"

[elvum]

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...

dismay, delight, dismay

[gosand]

dismay: The title of the article says "hacking" when it means "cracking".

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)