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When I read satellite hacking I recall Tamil LTTE ,hack of Intelsat.
by Friday_ 4y ago
When I read satellite hacking I recall Tamil LTTE ,hack of Intelsat.
- consumer451 4y agoI hate to admit it but my first thought was Edward in Cowboy Bebop. Yours was much cooler. Thanks for that Intelsat story, I had no idea. https://spacenews.com/intelsat-vows-stop-piracy-sri-lanka-separatist-group/ https://spacenews.com/intelsat-vows-stop-piracy-sri-lanka-se...
- Friday_ 4y ago> Intelsat-12 is a bent-pipe satellite, whose "dumb" transponders rebroadcast anything that they receive within their frequency band. Bent-pipe satellites remain the most common technology today, with no real defenses against such attacks.[1][2] [1] https://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/06/ltte-technologically-innovative-rebels.html?m=1 https://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/06/ltte-technologica... [2] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA487592.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA487592.pdf