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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
Brazilian satellite hackers use high-performance antennas and homebrew gear to turn U.S. Navy satellites into their personal CB radios. Photo: Divulgação/Polícia Federal
There is a followup to a story I first broke on this blog on March 19
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2009/03/39-brazilian-milsatcom-pirates-arrested.html, Wired has a nice story on their site with the picture above, which is one of the Brazilian pirate milsatcom ground station antennas.
Here is a link to the Wired article
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom
Thanks to Chris Parris, MT Federal File columnist for passing along the info above. For more good stuff from Chris be sure to visit his blog online at http://mt-fedfiles.blogspot.com/.