Anonymous ID: 6e6dcd Dec. 26, 2018, 7:41 a.m. No.4473539   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3572

>>4473506

All of the CIA hacking leads back to a certain location too. Rupert Murdoch's some James was involved in hacking cable and sateelite TV in the '90s (DirectTV. Viaccess, etc.) in the US and OnDigital in the UK via a company called NDS in Haifa. They wanted to undermine the competition so that Sky could dominate and they released the info via a site called DR7 run by Boris, who was found later hanging from a tree.

Anonymous ID: 6e6dcd Dec. 26, 2018, 7:47 a.m. No.4473602   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Moar Sauce on Murdoch and the links to NDS.

 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/tarnovsky_testifies/

 

Christopher Tarnovsky has been testifying in the ongoing case between the News-Corp-Owned NDS and DISH Network Inc, which accuses Murdoch's firm of hacking its pay-TV conditional access (CA) systems.

 

Tarnovsky admits receiving $20,000 in cash, hidden inside electronics delivered from Canada, from NDS to examine their own CA system for weaknesses and create more secure systems. However, he denies ever receiving any money for breaking the system used by DISH, known as EchoStar at the time.

 

Tarnovsky said: "I never got money for reprogramming Echostar cards," according to Reuters . "Someone is trying to set me up."

 

It's not the first time Tarnovsky has been involved with hacking pay-TV systems. After spending some years providing technical know-how to those selling pirated cards, he eventually changed hats and went to work for NDS, where he was embroiled in litigation between Canal+ and NDS over similar claims.

 

Canal+ provided CA for the likes of ITV Digital, the UK's short-lived digital-TV pay-service, and accused NDS of breaking their technology and supplying Tarnovsky with the codes, which ended up posted on a Canadian website. That case ended when Canal+ owner Vivendi Universal sold their Telepiรน satellite service to News Corp, dropping the lawsuit as part of the deal.

 

Christopher Tarnovsky left NDS last year, but when asked about his forthcoming testimony at a recent black hat conference he was dismissive. "Sure, I've broken the cards of Kudelski [supplier of the EchoStar Smart Cards]โ€ฆ I was paid by NDS to do it. This is an activity that all companies in the trade do. But why would I have published these codes on the Net for free? I am not stupid, and I never had the intention of taking that risk."

 

The case is expected to last another couple of weeks, with DISH hoping to extract several million in damages for lost revenue.

Anonymous ID: 6e6dcd Dec. 26, 2018, 7:49 a.m. No.4473624   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3628

Even moar on Murdoch and HDS.

 

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120327/11144018260/news-corp-accused-hacking-competitors-smartcards-to-increase-piracy-satellite-tv-rivals.shtml

 

News Corp. Accused Of Hacking Competitors Smartcards To Increase 'Piracy' Of Satellite TV Rivals

from the all's-fair-in-murdoch-land dept

Four years ago, we wrote about claims that News Corp. had hired hackers to break the encryption on DISH Networks' satellite TV smart cards, and to "flood the market" with those cards, thereby increasing "piracy" of DISH's service. News Corp., of course, owned DISH's main competitor, DirecTV. The whole thing seemed really bizarre, and we were skeptical. This kind of thing only makes sense if you actually believe that "piracy" like that directly takes away money from the company whose service is hacked. But, it seems just as likely that flooding the market with hacked smartcards would take away business from both DISH and DirecTV in the cases where it was a true substitute (rather than going to people who would never pay for either anyway). Either way, that case ended with a jury finding News Corp guiltyโ€ฆ but of just hacking one smartcard, for which the company was fined a grand total of $49.69โ€ฆ and another $1,000 for "damages." Honestly, I'm not even sure that makes sense, because if it just hacked a single smartcard, it sounds like it may have just been for reverse engineering purposes.

 

Of course, in the intervening years, News Corp.'s name has become a lot more closely tied to the word "hacking" thanks to the News of the World scandal where reporters regularly "hacked" into voicemails (and, by "hacked" I really mean used a widely known loophole that makes it easy to listen to many people's voicemails). So with news breaking that News Corp. is again being accused of hacking, a lot of people are thinking about the recent scandals โ€“ but the details suggest that this may have been identical to the DISH/DirecTV story above, but with a UK focus. Basically, News Corp's subsidiary NDS is accused of hacking ITV Digital, a UK competitor to News Corp's Sky TV.

 

In this case, there are some more details, where it certainly suggests that at least someone at News Corp. was working closely with some hackers to publish the codes necessary to make unauthorized smartcards for ITV. ITV eventually did go out of business, and of course the article linked above quotes an exec there insisting that such "piracy" was "the killer blow for the business, there is no question."

 

Again, this doesn't make much sense to me. Even if all of these actions were done via News Corp., how does that actually help News Corp? People who got the hacked ITV smartcards weren't going to buy Sky TV services either. The whole thing seems pretty strange, suggesting it was either exaggerated, or whoever at News Corp. decided this was a reasonable strategy didn't even think about how getting more hacked smartcards would likely be a challenge for Sky just as much as it was for ITV.

 

Israel certainly has the hacking ability to do nefarious shit.