Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites

blantonl writes "Brazilians all over the country are using modified amateur radio equipment to communicate with each other using US Military communications satellites — effectively creating their own CB radio network on the backs of the US Military. Recent efforts to crack down have resulted in arrests of some of the users, however the behavior still continues today."

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what's with the !pirates tag?

[Animaether]

read up, whoever tagged this story with "!pirates"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio

piracy has widespread meanings, from the somali crazies type pirates to software/music/movie/etc. pirates to pirate radio communication.

just like hacker vs cracker, that battle was 'lost' many decades ago, probably before you were even born.

The definition of "Pirate", among other things...

[geekmux]

So now pirate is going to be used for anyone using something for nothing?

So now "prostitute" is going to be used for anyone selling sex?

So now "pilot" is going to be used for anyone flying a plane?

Uh, hate to break it to you, but sometimes the right word is used properly. But if you prefer, we could always call them "hackers" and really stir up the geek shit pot...

Re:So if i pirate Music with these Satellites...

[PopeRatzo]

...were water boarded 183 times by the marines.

When I saw that the CIA had waterboarded a terror suspect 183 times, it made me wonder how the decision was made after they had waterboarded the guy 182 times and not gotten what they wanted to try just once more.