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How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast
An anonymous reader submits: "According to an MSNBC article, 'it's simply a matter of aiming a strong signal at the uplink transponder on the satellite and overwhelming the...broadcaster's signals...You need a dish, some power, not too much. You put up a test pattern ... and do a sweep and find the transponder on the satellite you want to jam. It could even be smaller than the standard 6-meter dish. It could be a small dish with a lot of power.' This was apparently how an Iranian satellite television station was knocked off of Loral Skynet's TelStar-12 a few days ago. Loral contacted TLS, a company which specializes in satellite broadcast security, who quickly located the source of the jamming to Cuba."
How original. I hope someone doesn't try that on the internet.
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This could get very very dangerous. Imagine if some terrorists got ahold of a dish (not very hard these days) and knocked out some vital communication systems. Chaos! Our only hope is that since the instructions have been Slashdotted, the terrorists can't get through.
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Funny, the other divisions of MS seem to think it's some kind of horrible, immoral, illegal thing when you describe how to hack hardware. What happened to "very committed to respect for others' intellectual property and we request the same respect applied to our innovations"?
In other news, DirecTV was knocked off the air permanently for unexplained reasons today.
Comcast, AOL/TW, and Cox all declined to comment.
I work as a communications officer aboard a ship. We pulled into Cape Town on day 1 of the World Cricket Championships. One of the games was being broadcast nearby, until our active radar filled the air with distortion.
;)
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The second the gangway hit the deck, two sweaty, panicked cameramen came charging up, asking to speak to me. I was already at the gangway because I needed to meet a technician.
"You have to turn off your radar! We're broadcasting the World Cricket Chapmionships LIVE AND YOU KILLED OUR SIGNAL!"
Me: "Oh. Who's playing?"
Them: "Pakistan and Bangladesh."
Me: "Pakistan, eh? Yeah, I'll turn it off ASAP."
And 20 minutes later, I did
For any of you gusy that were watching that game, sorry.
Kinda
Tal
"Study your math, kids. Key to the universe." -The Archangel Gabriel
How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast
... and do a sweep and find the transponder on the satellite you want to jam'."
"According to an MSNBC article, 'it's simply a matter of aiming a strong signal at the uplink transponder on the satellite and overwhelming the...broadcaster's signals...You need a dish, some power, not too much. You put up a test pattern
So who from Microsoft or General Electric is going to prison for this DMCA violation?
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
The international enforcement arm of the FCC is the DOD.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
And the international enforcement arm of /. is the DoS.
-uso.
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Bad day for NITV... first their satellite gets jammed, and then we slashdot their site.