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Lawyers for EchoStar claim News Corp.'s satellite TV company DirecTV hired hacker Christopher Tarnovsky to steal and sell security codes for its competing Dish Network, eventually costing EchoStar $900 million in lost revenue. Tarnovsky testified in court yesterday and admitted he wrote such a program and that he took money from News Corp. publishing unit HarperCollins for ten years. He said his first payment was "$20,000 in cash hidden in electronic devices mailed from Canada," reports Reuters. Tarnovsky and DirecTV claim the hacker was only "reverse engineering" the Dish technology — a perfectly legitimate practice in the electronics industry. Though not one typically funded through secret international payments from unrelated corporate subsidiaries. (Photo by geraintwn)
News Corp. hacker confesses to secret payments
7:20 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Coorperate Espionage... hacking... secret payments... Anyone else getting a Shadowrun vibe? Or is that just me?
what, you mean rupert murdoch and co. have questionable ethics?
I think someone owes EchoStar $900 million! And his name rhymes with Boobert.
And this is just what we know. I have always suspected that virus protection companies hire programmers to make virus, so people need the software and updates. I have no evidence, just a theory.
@waynelambright: You sound like my friend Sean Michael Kerner, [blog.internetnews.com]
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