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    Default The murky world of pay TV pirates

    Hi All,

    This interest article appeared in the Australian Financial Review - 14th Feb 2008 as a feature.

    "A missing hard drive is the key to a $1 billion industrial espionage case" regarding ND$"

    Here is a copy of the article as a PDF -

    Or read it directly on line - (unfortunately you need to sign in)



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    That's quite a read.

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    Too hard, what's the washup??
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    That was one of the most interesting articles ive read for a long time.

    Dont we have a member called "biggun"?

    So how do we get our hands on a copy of the cd's?

    A mind blowing read

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    very interesting read

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    Would make a good movie I think, all very 007.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keepleft View Post
    Would make a good movie I think, all very 007.
    Was thinking the same thing LOL

    I wonder how many people have tried the dr7 web site since reading this
    When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all

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    thanks
    a good read, maybe they will make a movie of it and we can watch it with our hacked cards. heheheh
    has anyone still got a link to that story about rupert releasing the code years ago? i think its pretty much the same story but does include australian pay tv company and supposedly was done to buy them out...anyone ???
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    The run down:

    Someone wanted someone to buy there encryption system.
    Someone else wanted someone to buy there's instead.
    Someone died.
    Someone got rich.
    Someone got stiffed.
    And in the end your watching bloodmoney

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    Interesting to consider that NDS operatives contemplated releasing a hack of their own encryption to justify the need to maintain their security budget. A murky world indeed! Happily, my picture's crystal clear.

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    You can read it directly from the link below without signing up. Xray


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    Where is the rest of the article - am I missing something? I can't see the next page...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozetek View Post
    Where is the rest of the article - am I missing something? I can't see the next page...

    It too was no doubt hacked into

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    interesting reads well and could be the next blockbuster movie

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    A certain media mogul just keeps popping into my mind.

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    Is that still going on, its been years now
    RIP Tron

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    It's a good story .......

    I managed a ND$ integration in Taiwan in 2002/3. Coming home to Hong Kong one Friday night I had my briefcase stolen on the airport express train - my notebook computer was full of ND$ documents. They were not at all happy about it and I now understand why...........

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    Markus Kuhn. That name takes me back a few years.... What a fantastic article.

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    Quote from article ...

    When queried about correspondence from NDS found in Boris's possession, an NDS spokesman initially said NDS had offered him a job as a consultant, which he declined. Adams later told a journalist that NDS had offered Boris a university scholarship in Israel ...
    Boris F was mentored by Markus Kuhn ...

    Boris refused to work for NDS and was found hanging in a park - later investigations stated it was suicide - but facts did not match this conclusion ...

    Markus Kukn is alive and well -

    He is currently doing research (received an university scholarship) in Cambridge University ...

    If this story has credibility (the research on the background and events seems to be very accurate - pity though because there was much more public information floating around on the 'scene' at the time - most of it vanished at around the same time as these events unravelled) .. and if it does ...

    ... I guess we can draw our own conclusions as to how Markus got his posting ??

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    I don't think Markus pays for Main Event...

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