Murdoch's Hacker Speaks Out

This article from a Swiss newspaper recounts the appearance of Christopher Tarnovsky at the European Black Hat conference (link is to a Google translation of the French original). Next month Tarnovsky will testify in a lawsuit brought by a maker of satellite TV encryption systems (Kudeslki) against an Israeli company (NDS), for whom Tarnovsky worked until recently. (NDS is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.) While with NDS, Tarnovsky cracked Kudeslki's crypto, but claims he didn't post the result on the open Net. His responses to audience questions are amusing, in particular when someone from Microsoft asks him about breaking the Xbox 360 console. Tarnovsky replies (in the translation): "I have been offered 100,000 dollars for the break, but I replied that it was not enough."

Comments

Cheapskate

[that_itch_kid]

"I have been offered 100,000 dollars for the break, but I replied that it was not enough." Any 4 year old can break an XBox 360 with their own toys. Tonka trucks > all.

first?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn... no comment yet. Now i really have to actually read the article.

Le translation

[ettlz]

At the bottom. I don't think this is either the spirit or the intent of the original French but

Human reproduction and distribution reserved.

Police?

[Max_W]

I can break any door with a sledgehammer and an ax. Because I exercise regularly. But I does not mean I should or would.

Break an Xbox?

[airencracken]

Who needs this guy to break an Xbox, from what I've experienced, they're quite capable of breaking themselves.