The decommissioned satellite was weak to broadcast movies and a convention.
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Andrew Paul
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Printed Aug 15, 2022 3: 00 PM
Dwelling satellite orbiting the earth. Parts of this image furnished by NASA. Deposit Photos
With easiest a $300 fragment of apparatus and (upright) win entry to to an uplink gain 22 situation, you, too, can broadcast WarGames from a decommissioned Canadian satellite—that’s what hacking fanatic Karl Koscher showed every person over the weekend at the annual Def Con hacker meetup in Las Vegas. As a recent writeup from Motherboard particulars, after being granted win entry to to an abandoned uplink facility, Koscher and buddies weak a machine outlined radio known as a Hack RF to join with Canada’s defunct Anik F1R satellite last year and “like some relaxing with it.”
After 15 years of trusty carrier, the telecommunications satellite in geostationary orbit roughly 22,236 miles above the Earth was assign out to pasture in 2020, with subsequent plans to then walk it correct into a “graveyard orbit” in November 2021. In that window of purgatory, nonetheless, Koscher and fellow buddies internal the hacking neighborhood, ShadyTel, obtained every a license to use an out-of-use uplink facility alongside with the Anik F1R satellite’s transponder lease.
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