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#155 - 09/30/12 01:59 PM
Murdoch's Pirates - The Book
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What happens when one of the biggest media groups in the world sets up its own private security force? What happens when part of this operation goes rogue?News of the World is not the first Murdoch company to be accused of skullduggery. Murdochs Pirates is about the dark deeds of a secret division of News Corp, based in Jerusalem, operating in a combustible world of ambitious ex Scotland Yard men and former French and Israeli secret service agents, who have one thing in common - they have all left their previous employment under controversial circumstances. NDS produces smart cards for use by pay TV operators; this is a fiercely competitive field and one of the ways you get business is to demonstrate that the smart cards produced by your rivals can be easily pirated. Unless you are very careful, sometimes those pirated versions make their way out into the real world, where they can really damage your competitors businesses. Murdochs Pirates reads like a thriller, set in the arcane world of hackers and pirates. There are mysterious deaths, break-ins and wild chases. Some of the individuals involved may well be amongst the brightest minds on the planet, but sometimes their rivalry can get out of hand and their impulsive behaviour can defy logic. Chenoweth recounts this clandestine war with his customary lucidity, drollery and brio. This is NOT SPAM - If you want to find more about it search with google, it's for PUBLIC KNOWLEGE and if you want to test a forum to see if they are funded or supported by a big CAS company quoted on that book, just post this post and if they remove it, ban the user, it would definitely mean that the forum is owned by that large CAS. For FREEDOM of information and for uncensored internet, to let us know all us the truth and not to be manipulated by large medias organisations and their spy/army arm ! TS or Hannibal ;o) Mudoch's Pirates Book - Pre Order Qu'est-ce qui se passe quand l'un des plus grands groupes de médias dans le monde met en place sa propre force de sécurité privée? Qu'est-ce qui se passe quand une partie de cette opération va voyous? Nouvelles du monde n'est pas la première société Murdoch être accusé de magouilles. Pirates Murdoch est sur les actes sombres d'une division secrète de Nouvelles Corp, basée à Jérusalem, opérant dans un monde d'hommes combustible ex ambitieux de Scotland Yard et les anciens français et israéliens agents des services secrets, qui ont une chose en commun - ils ont tous quitté leur emploi précédent dans des circonstances controversées. NDS produit des cartes à puce pour l'utilisation par les opérateurs de télévision payante, ce qui est un domaine très concurrentiel et l'un des moyens que vous obtenez entreprise est de démontrer que les cartes à puce produites par vos rivaux peuvent être facilement piratés. Sauf si vous êtes très prudent, parfois, ces versions piratées se frayer un chemin dans le monde réel, où ils peuvent vraiment endommager vos activités de concurrents. Pirates Murdoch se lit comme un thriller, situé dans le monde mystérieux des pirates et des corsaires. Il ya des morts mystérieuses, des introductions par effraction et sauvage chenillards. Certaines des personnes en cause peuvent bien être parmi les esprits les plus brillants de la planète, mais parfois leur rivalité peut sortir de la main et leur comportement impulsif peut défier la logique. Chenoweth raconte cette guerre clandestine avec sa lucidité, drôlerie habituelle et brio.
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#161 - 11/04/12 08:00 PM
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/2012110...espionage.shtmlSpy Stories From The Murdoch Empire: News Corp Fights With Itself In Grand Game Of Espionage from the corporate-spy-vs-corporate-spy dept Back in 2008, News Corp (owners of satellite providers DirecTV) was sued by DISH Networks for allegedly hacking their competitors satellite smartcards and flooding the market with them. News Corp (sort of) lost that lawsuit. Following News Corp's more recent high-profile hacking scandal related to News Of The World, more accusations of satellite hacking emerged, this time in the UK. But amidst all the lawsuits and accusations, it turns out there are some other fascinating stories to be found in News Corp's world of competitive corporate hacking and private security. A new book by Neil Chenoweth, Murdoch's Pirates, digs into that world and turns up some pretty fascinating results. From an excerpt published in the Sydney Morning Herald, we get the story of some befuddled inter-agency espionage between News Corp and its own subsidiary, complete with aliases, informants, moles and a cross-border escape gambit by a spy on the run. The story is complex, but I'll attempt to summarize. In the late 90s, NDS (the branch of News Corp that deals with private security and anti-piracy activities) sent top hacker Oliver Kömmerling undercover to Toronto, under the pseudonym Alex, with a mission: pose as a satellite pirate and infiltrate the rings selling hacked DirecTV smartcards. Oliver was also one of the hackers directly involved in the hacking of competitors' smart cards, but in this case he was being put to work defending News Corp's own satellite operation. But NDS made one big mistake: they never told DirecTV, which had its own security/anti-hacking division led by a former FBI agent, and they believed Oliver was still a bonafide satellite pirate at large. They had no idea he was now working for NDS—and one of the Canadian hackers Oliver met with turned out to be working for DirecTV, and ratted him out to them. Moreover, no matter NDS or Oliver's intentions, he was breaking the law by hacking and selling smart cards to track down the "real" hackers—so he ended up facing potential arrest or detainment at the border. As a result, the two security divisions (both ultimately owned by News Corp) played spy-games with each other, and for the details you really should just read the whole story. It's fascinating, and quite funny—and it also raises some interesting questions about how big corporations should approach this kind of security. In one way, I actually think some of the principles here are the right way to approach things—investigate the biggest commercial pirates until you have enough evidence to either bring a lawsuit against them or pass the case along to a criminal prosecutor. That's better than having the government act as corporate police. However, big problems arise when companies start breaking the law in the course of their investigation—as much as they might want to play spy, they don't get the exemptions that law enforcement and intelligence agencies do. It's also highly troubling when their investigations are intertwined with law enforcement, such as when FACT in the UK joined the police raid on the SurfTheChannel offices—that's crossing a line between private interests and government. But then, on top of all that, you have the potential for a comedy of errors like this one: News Corp spending lots of resources to put a man in significant danger in a foreign country, for the sake of hacking its own products, and spurring its own property to put more resources into tracking down a hacker that was supposed on be on their side. At some point you have to ask: what is security worth? And how likely is it to be effective against hackers if it is disorganized to the point of farce?
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#176 - 12/05/12 12:10 AM
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