Falungong scores one

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GC26Ad04.html


Falungong sabotages Chinese satellite TV


Falungong, which Beijing outlawed as an "evil cult" in 1999, disrupted television broadcast signals in most parts of China last week for about five minutes by jamming signal transmission via the satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co Ltd (AsiaSat). One communications-technology expert, however, told Asia Times Online that such attacks could be thwarted by using appropriate security measures.

"The attack started at 9:34pm on March 14 and disrupted six C-band transponders of an AsiaSat 3S satellite with Falungong propaganda, causing a break in regular programming of many provincial TV channels in the mainland that hire the attacked transponders for transmission," AsiaSat chief executive officer Peter Jackson told a press conference on March 15.

China considers the well-organized Falungong, which can mobilize thousands of supporters, a threat to Communist Party rule.

-snip-


Dajiyuan or Epoch Times, an overseas Chinese-language news website, said the disruptions were not Falungong images but slogans urging people to leave the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); it included a harangue against the party's flaws and alleged indifference and injustice toward the Chinese people.
-snip-
------------------------------


do you think we could hire them to interrupt Faux News as an antidote to kool aid?

"One communications-technology expert, however, told Asia Times Online that such attacks could be thwarted by using appropriate security measures."





Well, duh. By definition, any given attack COULD be thwarted by APPROPRIATE security measures.

The challenge of security isn't the "how", but the "which"... as in "which of the zillions of potentially imaginable threats can we address with the budget and time we have available?"




The art of safety is the art of judging risk.