Last year I wrote a long piece about people hacking DirecTV satellite signals. Now I'm releasing it for free to the web with a couple of embedded ads for my latest books. If you're interested in a few clever people who find ways to defeat some of the best security systems available, you might want to read it.
The link is at the top of my home page/blog: http://www.wayner.org/ If you can't find it there, try here: http://www.wayner.org/books/f7.pdf You are free to circulate this as long as you leave the ads for _Disappearing Cryptography_ and _Translucent Databases_ in place. Please be aware that there is a new legal climate in Canada, the hotbed for most of the public hacking. The Canadian Supreme Court effectively re-criminalized the behavior with a new decision last Friday, April 22. Before that date, the lower courts accepted the arguments of the pirates who claimed that the law didn't protect DirecTV because DirecTV wasn't legally broadcasting in Canada. This changes the legal equation, but it doesn't affect one of the major root causes of the piracy. Canadians who want to watch the better, cheaper American programming will still have no choice but to steal it. If you have thoughts, suggestions or pointers, please don't hesitate to contact me. Peter Wayner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
