How hackers could spy on satellite internet traffic with just $300 of home TV equipment - A researcher at Oxford University has demonstrated how he could gain access to sensitive information on corporate networks by targeting traffic being transmitted by satellites

[Ahriman]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-hackers-could-spy-on-satellite-internet-traffic-with-just-300-of-home-tv-equipment/

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Pretty scary stuff.

 

[Adolf Honkler]

If Oxford Academics are now publicly doing this you can bet that China has been doing this for a long time.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

TL;DR: Unencrypted traffic sent over public networks isn't secure.

Gee fucking whillikers.

 

[Distant Stare]

Who would have thought beaming your data thousands of miles through the air, un-encrypted, would lend itself to ease dropping.

 

[Melktert]

This sucks.

also what's with that guy's hair? is he stuck in 2009?

 

[Death Grip]

Either way, someone will make some money along the way.
I bet on the person who has just pointed out the issue.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Cool. I made a post months ago how that was a popular thing to do in the 90's.

On the topic of spying, I knew some people that all had a particular Nokia satellite tv decoder, it had a SCSI port that a HDD could be hooked up to and the decoder itself could be used to "record" internet traffic sent via satellite because it wasn't encrypted. So many pictures of fat swingers.
That kind of old weirdness is something I miss.

 

[Aidan]

Not watching the video because tor, but if this was in the west I'm surprised the signals aren't encrypted leaving the base station. That's mandatory just to avoid big brother from seeing it.
This is like saying with a radio you can listen to the radio.