Re:The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Ne...
by candiodari on Saturday May 12, 2018 @08:01AM
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I did network consulting for one such organisation. Their management had taken the following -utterly brilliant- decisions in succession.
1. They got hacked, didn't respond.
2. Someone used the (published) hack to make cheaper decoder boxes. Management decided to sell these hacked, rather than the genuine ones. Or to put it another way, they screwed up logistics of their own boxes to the point that they decided to sell someone else's boxes.
3. Someone started rebroadcasting their signal. First on the internet, eventually on actual radio waves.
Because of 2) they couldn't turn off the hacker's signal. And they didn't want to because this would mean "taking a loss" to shareholders (ie. admitting the financial consequences of their own disastrous past decisions).
So "for business reasons" it may not be as simple as redoing the encryption.
1. They got hacked, didn't respond.
2. Someone used the (published) hack to make cheaper decoder boxes. Management decided to sell these hacked, rather than the genuine ones. Or to put it another way, they screwed up logistics of their own boxes to the point that they decided to sell someone else's boxes.
3. Someone started rebroadcasting their signal. First on the internet, eventually on actual radio waves.
Because of 2) they couldn't turn off the hacker's signal. And they didn't want to because this would mean "taking a loss" to shareholders (ie. admitting the financial consequences of their own disastrous past decisions).
So "for business reasons" it may not be as simple as redoing the encryption.