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Hong Kong police have joined a probe into the hijacking of satellite signals of Chinese government-run television stations by the Falungong spiritual group. Falungong, which is banned on the mainland but legal in Hong Kong, is accused of hacking into Chinese programmes to broadcast pro-sect propaganda on several occasions. The most recent incidents late last month saw programming on 19 state-run networks in China interrupted by Falungong messages, according to mainland officials, baffling TV engineers as to how the sect had pulled off the technologically challenging stunt. A Chinese information ministry spokesman told the independent Ming Pao daily Wednesday that last month's satellite hijack was done from overseas, not from the mainland. Several places including Hong Kong could have been the source of the hijacking, the spokesman said. Ming Pao said that Hong Kong police had visited satellite television companies as well as Hong Kong's telecommunications authority to check their records and investigate their operations. Sophie Xiao, a Hong Kong-based spokeswoman for Falungong, said "this is another of the excuses by Chinese authorities to extend their persecution of Falungong outside China". "They have been doing that for quite some time through their embassies and consulates overseas by collecting information on the group," she told AFP. "They also use diplomatic channels to stop Falungong activities abroad." The hijackings involved two Sinosat satellites belonging to Sino-Satellite Communications, with the hackers breaking codes to uplink with the satellite and then transmit Falungong propaganda on the same frequency as the television stations. China outlawed Falungong in July 1999 as an "evil cult" but the group has remained legal in autonomous Hong Kong. All rights reserved. © 2002 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
SINOSAT And Beijing's Propaganda War In Space
New York - Jul 11, 2002Since July 8th, utilizing allegations that Falun Gong practitioners overseas tapped into the broadcast signal of the SINOSAT satellite, Jiang Zemin's propaganda machine has attacked and condemned Falun Gong in the Chinese and world media says the Falun Dafa Information Center. New Class Of Attacks On Computer Security Systemss 
Cambridge - May 17, 2002Researchers at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory have developed a powerful class of attacks on computer security systems. The attack was invented by Sergei Skorobogatov, a PhD student with the Laboratory's security group, led by Dr Ross Anderson. |
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