[HaBi 2]    Sattelite jamming for fun, profit and global suicide

Sattelite jamming for fun, profit and global suicide American executives called it "video terrorism" but there was no denying a champion of the citizens had been born. John MacDougall 25, of Florida, alias Captain Midnight, patched a 4 ½ minute message onto a Home Box Office movie beamed to American viewers via a Hughes Communications satellite. Appropriately, the message came across the broadcasting on April 27th, 1986, of the movie The Falcon and the Snowman, which dealt with security penetration of classified information by the American Soviet agent Christopher Boyce. Captain Midnight's statement was a warning: his brief message,that home satellite viewers would fight back, sent chills down the spine of every broadcast executive in the country. Massive amounts of sensitve American Defense Department information was carried along the same commercial satellite networks that MacDougall exposed as vulnerable to computer hackers, pranksters or satellite saboteurs. MacDougall had instigated his message from a commercial broadcast facility - making not only HBO or Hughes executives but defence officials even more anxious. If MacDougall had chosen to point his antenna at a Pentagon satellite instead, the~American mon-itoring of those channels might have assumed that the Soviets were. about to fire their bombs and were taking the first step by jamming US ability to retaliate. via Mother Jones Oct. '86

[HaBi 2]    Sattelite jamming for fun, profit and global suicide