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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/LNTSM3K3QMOPEOW262Z5ANCFFYLZZPBR/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "LNTSM3K3QMOPEOW262Z5ANCFFYLZZPBR", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/LNTSM3K3QMOPEOW262Z5ANCFFYLZZPBR/", "sender": { "address": "ham (a) g4dmf.co.uk", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "John Wright", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: satellite piracy", "date": "2007-04-18T15:17:44Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "At 20:34 17/04/2007, you wrote:\n>Interesting article in SANS News today. (SANS is a network/computer\n>security organization... http://www.sans.org)\n>\n>--Tamil Rebels Hijack US Satellite Signal\n>(April 13, 2007)\n>Rebel independence fighters in Sri Lanka have been pirating the services\n>of a US satellite to send radio and television broadcasts to other\n>countries. In 1997, the US government identified this particular group,\n>the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, as a terrorist\n>organization. The satellite belongs to Intelstat, a US company.\n>Intelstat officials have been meeting with technical experts and Sri\n>Lanka's Ambassador to the US to discuss measures the company it is\n>taking to prevent the satellite's unauthorized use. The rebels maintain\n>they are not accessing the satellite illegally.\n>http://australianit.news.com<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21549846%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>\n>.au/articles/0,7204,21549846%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21549846%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>\n>http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1897037.htm\n>\n>The question comes to mind -- what if the \"rebels\" were licensed hams and\n>using a ham HEO (if one were up)? Talk about a political nightmare...\n\nI seem to remember a long while ago, I think in the mid 80's, seeing \na report in a UK newspaper, about terrorists in I think Libya, using \nwhat was described as a \" semi-defunct\" amateur satellite for \ncommunications... or is my mind playing tricks on me. I've thought \nabout this several times recently, bearing in mind the world \npolitical situation, if a commercial satellite can be compromised, so \nmay others, and it need not be an HEO! \n\n", "attachments": [] }