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Posted on May 6, 2008 Written by Diane

Because Rupert Murdoch is all about the fair playing field:

A computer hacker has told a US court he was hired by a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to develop pirating software – but denied trying to breach a rival satellite system.

Christopher Tarnovsky was giving evidence yesterday in a corporate spying case brought against the News Corp subsidiary NDS, which supplies the encryption technology that guards access to the media empire’s satellite services across the world, including BSkyB in the UK.

(Via Dear Author.)

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