Sri Lankan Terrorists Hack Satellite

SorryTomato writes "The Tamil Tigers Liberation Front a separatist group in Sri Lanka, which has been classified as a terrorist group in 32 countries has moved up from routine sea piracy to a space-based one. They have been accused of illegally using Intelsat satellites to beam radio and television broadcasts internationally. Intelsat says that they will end the transmissions 'within days.' Intelsat has been accused of having business links with Hezbollah before, but claim that they are blameless this time and LTTE was using an empty transponder."

Comments

Where do they get the skills?

[MichaelSmith]

I work in aviation and a co-worker of mine is Tamil. I started to wonder what we was doing with his spare time when I found out about the Tamil Tiger air force. It wasn't the fact that they had planes which got me, it was the fact that they bought a simulator to go with them. These guys make Al Qaeda look like a bunch of amateurs.

I can't help thinking that more than a few of the Sri Lankan people who have gone into tech jobs in the west are working behind the scenes for these people.