17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 11:11 CDT on Sunday, July 6, 1997, Jim Choate wrote: |The place to attack is the up-link. This requires physical access (ie a van |with a dish and xmtr.) as well as a means to crack the encryption on the |control channels. At least one French satellite has been cracked and |de-orbited via a network attack. The encryption for US-made satellites is supplied by the NSA. Cracking the encryption is much easier said than done. Is there a cite for the French incident? /pbp