If it’s that easy, it begs the question of why there isn’t stronger encryption to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Also what kind of power is required for transmission? How many watts?
It’s not an encryption issue… encryption is used to prevent unauthorized reception…,. so uplinking would be done without an encryption… how many spare watts you got… it also depends what transponder on the satellite you use as you beam out on their power but uplinkwith as low dbwatts as you think necessary … you have to uplink without disrupting the providers signal.
Here’s a related article. To uplink into a sat transmission you’d need about 1khz power at 6ghz power to beam in. Enough to fry yourself for sure.
Many belive that hacking into the isp uplink stream would have been the way to go.
From atimes.com/atimes/China/GC26Ad04.html
HONG KONG - 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.
This is the second assault after November 20, when an unidentified hacker intruded into the transmission of a transponder on the 3S satellite. But “the interruption proves much more vicious this time, affecting six transponders”, said AsiaSat marketing manager Sabrina Cubbon. Under strong interference from offensive signals, the satellite transmission will dangerously outstrip the saturation point, so the affected transponders must be turned off, she added. So far, the company has not yet detected the source of the attack because of technical impediments.
As a result of the intrusion, regular programs were replaced by Falungong propaganda on several provincial-level TV channels that broadcast to all cable TV subscribers in the country via the AsiaSat 3C satellite. TV stations in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, Jiangsu province in the east, Hunan province in central China and Sichuan province were among those disrupted, to name a few. “We were informed by the clients when the Falungong stuff had gone to air. But our service was back to normal a few minutes later,” Liu said.
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.
“The source of jamming signals must have been close enough to the AsiaSat ground transmitter station to disrupt the frequency,” said Dr Li Chi-kwong of the Electronics and Information Engineering Department, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. “Besides, it takes time to target jamming signals at the satellite in outer space. Therefore, a tighter security of the ground transmitter will help prevent further interruption. Alternatively, encryption will make TV signals more difficult to tamper with.”
The latest disruption came at a highly sensitive time, as the National People’s Congress had just passed the Anti-Secession Law on March 14. But how much the sabotage had to do with the legislation is not known. The Ministry of Information Industry is working with the ministries of National Security and Public Security in an intensive inquiry, and their findings will be released after they are completed and evaluated.
The incident is anything but a hoax. “Whoever successfully jammed the satellite must command a good knowledge of satellite transmission and possess some essential equipment to emit interruptive signals of great strength. Hereby, we presume that the attack was done by wealthy foreigners,” said Sabrina Cubbon. Professor Li Chi-kwong of Hong Kong Polytechnic University also agreed that the incident was designed and planned well in advance.
By employing security staff to patrol regularly around the transmitter stations, such attacks can be avoided, said Professor Li.
Hong Kong Falungong spokesman Kan Hung-cheung told Asia Times Online that he had not heard about Falungong disciples plotting the incident on March 14. Yet, he added, “I know some fellows have in the past interfered with TV broadcasts to make known how Falungong members were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. And what they did deserves positive recognition … There’s no speech freedom in China, which is why the Falungong members had to jam TV satellites,” Kan added.
However, Cubbon said, “The interference disabled our service and negatively affected our reputation. We strongly condemn such outlawed behaviors.”
So far, AsiaSat has informed the Office of the Telecommunications Authority under the Hong Kong government, but has not reported the signal disruption to the police. “There’re only two places where the Falungong signals could be sourced, so it’s very unlikely that the source was in Hong Kong. Since the satellite transmission is worldwide, we can’t call the police all over the world,” Cubbon explained. Said Dr Li Chi-kwong: “If the source couldn’t be spotted when the signals were still on the air, there will be fat chance to locate the source after that. As the latest interruptive signals only lasted for five minutes or so, it’s too difficult to find out the source.”
In a press release, AsiaSat CEO Jackson said the latest interference and the previous incident in November “seriously violated international telecommunications treaties” and “contravened international regulations”. The company said it reserved the right to take appropriate legal actions.
Falungong is a religion blending Buddhist and Taoist credos with breathing (or Qigong, a traditional Chinese martial art) and meditation exercises. On April 24, 1999, a huge legion of Falungong members rallied around Zhongnanhai - the power enclave of the China’s central government. After Falungong was banned as an “evil cult”, thousands of adherents were detained or jailed for rehabilitation.
Some members of Falungong had jammed other satellites to disrupt broadcasts into China, including the coverage in 2003 of China’s first manned space flight. Those convicted were punished with long jail sentences.
There is only one place where this disrupting signal could have come from: Taiwan.
[quote=“AsiaSat”]Whoever successfully jammed the satellite must command a good knowledge of satellite transmission and possess some essential equipment to emit interruptive signals of great strength.[/quote]Do the jammers have a PayPal account? I’d like to sponsor the effort to overthrow the Chinese government, it must be as expensive as it is dangerous.
[quote=“zeugmite”]There is only one place where this disrupting signal could have come from: Taiwan.[/quote]Preferably from a high altitude, like a mountain. But not just anyone can do this, it would need someone with a professional knowledge of satellite tv. 
[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]Preferably from a high altitude, like a mountain. But not just anyone can do this, it would need someone with a professional knowledge of satellite tv. [/quote]Jim, your cheque’s in the post mate 
Yummy, thanks mate 
[quote=“zeugmite”]
Then there is the whole issue of media credibility. Well, frankly your standard is %@*, because if something is true and Xinhua reports it, you won't trust it because it's Xinhua. If Singapore reports the same thing you won't trust it because it says the same as Xinhua. You only trust anything that doesn't agree with Xinhua. Do you see why your standard is %@*?
.[/quote]
My dear Zeugmite…maybe that is because I have read enough of what Xinhua has reported back to back with what many other papers have reported to not trust everything they write. Someone who reads many sources and selects the most impartial for his or her news is far better informed in my opinion than someone who puts blind faith in one (someone = you, one = Xinhua) Haha…and you criticize me for not paying attention. 
BTW: Here’s another hint to improve your credibility…especially in a language that is not your own. Stop the swearing. It can also help lower your blood pressure…and from the sounds of it, your heart is pumping so hard that your head is about to explode. :loco:
For a more scholarly and objective look at Falun Gong, I suggest checking out the page made by Prof. Barend J. ter Haar of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University (the Netherlands), who is an expert in the field of Chinese cultural and religious history:
let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/falun.htm
I would trust this much more than the crap Lizzi posts … 
Some eastern media and people are influenced by FLG’s propaganda.
clearwisdom.net
epochtimes.com
forumosa.com/taiwan/profile.php? … ile&u=8845
Lizi, did you even go look at that site? It’s not the media … it’s an academic analysis of the Falun Gong movement, from one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese cultural and religious history.
I don’t mean this to sound rude, but I think Lizi’s English isn’t quite up to snuff, because I don’t think s/he reads and comprehends anything that anyone posts here.
Go and look at the site, it’s perhaps the most impartial analysis of the situation that I have seen yet, and this guy has zero credibility problems as far as the world of academia is concerned.
Academia is brainwashed by CCP propaganda.
Torture is a horrible thing. As an ex-soldier I can testify that torture has no use whatsoever, except satisfying the bloodlust of some sadist.
I’m paraphrasing here, but Chis Penn’s line in Resevoir Dogs applies: “If you beat on him long enough, he’ll say he started the fucking Chicago fire, but that doesn’t necessarily make it fucking so!”
Any person that tortures another being makes me wish that those Old Testament verses were true… boils my blood. :fume:
And anyway, scientists are here to mislead us and help the aliens take over, remember?
Falun Dafa is a quagmire for the C.C.P. The C.C.P. says God does not exist. When one dies they are “going to Marx.” They also expect the people to totally conform and go along with whatever it wants. If people dont’t comply then they are labeled. Out of fear society goes along. The C.C.P. will never achieve these things with Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa follows Truth , Compassion, and Tollerence as the law. What the C.C.P.does is wicked and evil. One should never cooperate with evil.
This sounds a bit like Falun Gong to me … 
Prof. Barend J. ter Haar’s English is not easy to read. If you can get through that whole site, you deserve a medal and/or enlightenment. Lizi is not to be blamed.
But from the little bit I could stand reading, my favorite line is, “Other religious groups and figures are also persecuted from time to time, often also with considerable force and explicit dead sentences.” (I assume he means “death sentences,” not “dead sentences.” But then again, maybe my English “isn’t quite up to snuff.”)
Notice how the fact that “other religious groups” are “persecuted from time to time” somehow makes what the Falungong followers suffer excusable or less noteworthy. Paraphrase: “Worse things have happened, so it’s not that bad.”
I really don’t understand why people are still apologizing for and excusing the acts of the PRC – other than those who get financial support from the PRC (including many academic institutions). I understand why they do it, but it’s still despicable.
God is dead.
As opposed to FLG, where they go to their own nice little racially pure heaven. Unless, of course, they’re not racially pure themselves, in which case they’re fucked.
What kinds of labels? Narrow-minded? Brainwashed? Evil?
And they know this - that’s why they’re torturing and killing them.
So long as the truth involves aliens from other planets, millenia-old nuclear power plants in Africa, and David Copperfield exhibiting magical powers, and compassion and tolerance include calling people brainwashed puppets, evil, and endorsing racial segregation.
Once again, preaching to the choir. We on this board mostly live in Taiwan - we’re very well aware of the threat next door. I don’t think you’ve met much argument on that point. However FLG is fucking nuts too.