Rupert Murdoch was the original DBS hacker...or at least hired them.

mnassour

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The BBC, Daily Beast and numerous news sources are this morning claiming that the originator of DBS satellite piracy in the early days of the DBS industry was none other than Rupert Murdoch.

Last night, the BBC's Panorama program had interviews with the hackers and the administrators who worked for NDS and purposely targeted the smart cards of competitors in an effort to destroy their business.

BBC One - Panorama

Questions for News Corp over rival's collapse | Media | The Guardian

If any of you have access to the BBC program, you will certainly want to take a look at it, for it describes a corporation that, not content with competing in the free market, sought to illegally hack and compromise its competitors' security systems, so their business model would collapse. That is exactly what happened in the case of a British company.

We should all be thankful that Murdoch was never able to absorb an American Satellite company.
 
Can't post, but it should be out there somewhere. There's also a PBS Frontline about Murdoch that KMOS put out online too.
 
The most damning evidence regarding U.S. operations comes from the Australian Financial Review, which claims that Murdoch deliberately sat on a fix for DirecTV piracy issues in order to depress the company's value...just so he could pick it up on the cheap.

How NDS made the price right

The Aussie paper has an entire list of stories they've done on this.

People should be in prison for this.
 
Being an Aussie in Australia, this has been big news especially since NDS hacked Irdeto 1 which was what pay tv operator Austar used at the time and now Foxtel (owned 25% by News corporation and also uses NDS) is now trying to take it over. The other irony is that Austar now use Irdeto 2 encryption and this also has been compromise for a number of years now.

Leroy
 

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