[amsat-bb] Satellite pirates.

[Bryan Green]

Perhaps he meant the Brazilian folk who commonly use the uncontrolled US Navy satellites for communication:

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

-- bag

Bryan KL7CN/W6
bryan at kl7cn.net

> On Aug 3, 2019, at 09:30, Mike Diehl via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> The article you linked to was quite lengthy so I skimmed over it. From what I can tell it’s all about receiving pay television programming. Cant figure out how this applies to an amateur radio satellite. 
> 
> 73, 
> Mike Diehl
> W8LID/VE6LID 
> 
>> On Aug 3, 2019, at 07:28, KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> Just getting into this aspect of GEO satellite security...
>> I found this very informative, though old article about satellite pirates and their hacking techniques in the old days of satellite TV (ca. 1993)
>> 
>> Since any new ham GEO satellite might be an emolation of these earlier TV satellites, it is imperative that some sort of security for the system might be prudent.
>> 
>> http://www.nmia.com/~roberts/sat.pirates
>> 
>> Bernard,
>> KC9SGV
>> 
>> 
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