Computer hacker testifies against News corp
A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service. Christopher Tarnovsky — who said his first payment was $20,000 in cash hidden in electronic devices mailed from Canada — testified in a corporate-spying lawsuit brought against News Corp’s NDS Groupby DISH Network Corp. The trial could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage awards. NDS, which provides security technology to a global satellite network that includes satellite TV service DirecTV, denies the claims, saying it was only engaged in reverse engineering — looking at a technology product to determine how it works, a standard in the electronics industry.
After an introduction by plaintiff’s attorney Chad Hagan as one of the “two best hackers in the world,” Tarnovsky told the court that he was paid on a regular basis by Harper Collins, a publishing arm of News Corp, for 10 years. Tarnovsky said one of his first projects was to develop a pirating program to make DirectTV more secure. But lawyers for DISH Network claim Tarnovsky’s mission was to hack into DISH’s satellite network, steal the security code, then flood the market with pirated smart cards costing DISH $900 million in lost revenue and system-repair costs. Smart cards enable satellite TV converter boxes to bring in premium channels. The trial is expected to last another two to three weeks.
Source: Reuters
Comments(26)
News?
Poor guy…Bet he made a tidy profit tho.
I hope they nail News Corp and Uncle Rupert for loads of damages …….. NDS sucks for satellite pirates
Not surprised, NDS did the same in several occasions
in the past, hiring hackers to wipe off the competition!
Lol awesome!
You have received a new email from ARC
hack the planet,
nice little earner he has there
Wow what a snitch!
I bet Christopher gets F’d in the A alot in his future.
This guy got paid half a mil for his little device some say he was behind the p2 and p3 Directv hack from the late 90s that cost Dave millions.
Reboot The Planet Earth!!!
what’s up (down) with newtorrents.info?
newtorrents up here and ok;):)
strange, I haven’t been able to access newtorrents for days
Considering that DISH has no more holes than a 22 years old junkie from Harlem , i’d say it’s pretty obvious to see who is lying here.
News Corp and their manufactured garbage (aka Fox News) just need to die. Hopefully this will be the beginning of it. Throw that old hag of Murdoch in jail and throw the key away. He’s no better than Ken Lay.
about newtorrents.info
change to opendns, my time warner cable’s dns servers aren’t pointing me to nt.info. opendns works fine.
Too much money earned by DiSH and only a few for Chad Hagan…
3 words.. free-to-air
I hope this doesnt affect the fta scene…
murdoch owns most of the world’s media and he aint gonna stop … on a side note, what is goin on with the site? i tried hourly for the past few hours and it fails to load. hope this gets fixed soon.
it is so easy to steal sattelitte
but not so easy to spell it.
I just wish murdoch (and his entire little clan) would goto prison or something, but it won’t happen.
He has too much money, and more importantly he’s too influential with the ruling classes.
@15 thanks, shall try opendns right away
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ripit
April 26th, 2008 | 00:13
it is so easy to steal sattelitte
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CumSock
April 26th, 2008 | 11:33
but not so easy to spell it.
lmfao
armulator, emulator, and atmega still going strong, alot less hassle than FTA, Charlie or Bev. Then again Dave will be going public again soon
supports the old adage of ‘no honor among thieves’