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Murdoch's Hacker Speaks Out

Posted by kdawson on from the all-for-pay dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Sky TV uses Linux by NotQuiteInsane · · Score: 1, Troll

    No current BSkyB box uses Linux... they're all OS20, UCOS, Nucleus, or VxWorks.
    OS20 being STMicroelectronics' operating system for the ST20 chips?

    Posting anonymously for obvious reasons... Because you work for Pace? (well let's face it, there aren't exactly many companies making STBs for BskyB). :)