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Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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anyone else remember low orbit ion cannon DDOSing? i guess life imitates art
edit: receivers. doy. reading comprehension is hard.
I assume in this case it's DDOSing the satellite,not the other way round?
the article isn't 100% clear, but this line suggested to me that they were being used to perform attacks themselves (although it also states "Allegedly, the functionality was needed to counter the attacks of a competing entity.")
I understand it as the receivers were deliberately attacking their competitors satellites (and that this would effect their performance as it was wasting bandwidth).
Countering in this case would be by making their competitors service as bad as theirs?
Satellite receiver usually means a thingy for receiving satellite TV. Receiver means that it only receives signals but cannot transmit any.
I assume that these are internet enabled. Maybe just for updates, or maybe to also do streaming. So, I take it to mean that they do the normal internet DDOS thing on the side, in a way that has nothing to do with satellites.