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."

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[Master of Transhuman]

I submit this story at 5:16 AM on Saturday, some "anonymous reader" submits it at 11 AM and he gets it. MY submission asked whether this sort of thing will stimulate more of the same from satellite hackers who already know how to do this which is more important than who is doing it to the US broadcasts to Iran.

There is no justice on Slashdot...

Go ahead, mod me down...Then stuff it up your ass...