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Sri Lankan Terrorists Hack Satellite

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

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."

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  1. Capt Midnight is not impressed. by John_R._MacDougall · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Old and busted.

  2. Skynet went live... by TFGeditor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..12 April 2007.

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  3. Re:The Best Hackers by c_forq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On a serious note, that is one thing I hate about English, and hate even more about French. Why are there all these letters which aren't being used? Why do sounds appear that have no logical letters to create them? Even when spelling works how they sound you run into problems (see the wikipedia article on Ghoti). Sometimes I think we should switch everything to Hebrew or one of the simple bastardized English creoles.

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