Adventures in America: ‘All we had to do was stick to our story and deny’

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Abbreviations

JN  John Norris, US head NDS Operational Security

LR Larry Rissler security chief for NDS client DirecTV

Alex     NDS code name for Oliver Koemmerling

PC       Canadian pirate, informant for Rissler

NDC  News Datacom, renamed NDS

BILL       NDS code name for Canadian pirate Marty Mullen

Jellyfish  NDS code name for associate of Koemmerling

POMELLA  NDS code name ofr European hacker

BELLA    NDS code name for an associate of Koemmerling

Exhibit 2009 Case No. SA CV03-950 DOC (JTL)

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Reuven.

As I discussed with you the announcement by John that Larry R had been told about Alex was something of a major surprise. I know that you know the story from JN. What I am doing here is putting my perspective so that you have a record of how I see things. I have not discussed this with JN and will not mention it to him. This is a communication between myself and you alone. Continue reading →

The unfortunate shooting at the Hotel Palas–Kazanluk

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Hacker Fired at DJ
Computer Whiz Fired at Random 5 Times, One of the Bullets Hit the Man’s Leg
MONITOR – Stara Zagora
An enraged drunk hacker shoot through the leg of the DJ of hotel PALAS –Kazanluk. yesterday  informed  the District Police Directorate. The accident happened on Tuesday at 1.30 h AM.
Quite intoxicated, 31-year old Plamen stayed at the bar on the 4th floor of the hotel where he got in quarrel with the DJ named L—–. The two of them began fighting following the deliberate pecking of the computer whiz at the DJ. The personnel succeeded in parting them. After that Plamen took out his gun Beretta and began firing at random in the bar. He fired 5 shots altogether. One of the bullets hit the left leg of the DJ. Continue reading →

The NDS hacker who hated Israel

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Murdoch’s Pirates:  the Out Takes
Kazanluk, Bulgaria                  February-August, 1999
Ray Adams had a new best buddy, and the former Scotland Yard man was almost squirming. In a few short weeks Adams had forged a life-long link to Plamen Donev, former Bulgarian military technician, now one of the world’s most threatening hackers. It was a little like watching the cat being romanced by the Disney skunk, Pepé le Pew. Ray was the cat, and Donev believed he had never had a friend like him. There were so many things to say about life on Planet Plamen, beginning perhaps with the fact that NDS’s latest recruit, who was on a visit in early July to head office in Jerusalem, showed signs of being anti-Semitic. Continue reading →

The numbers that kill the Murdoch succession

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Nobody looks at the voting numbers for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. For a start, looking at those numbers is hopelessly nerdy. And in any case his complete ascendancy—his ability to wield 39.7 per cent of the voting stock while only owning 13.5 per cent of the total stock–makes the results at annual meetings a complete no-brainer. At least that’s how it is pitched.

But last week’s voting numbers at the annual meeting in Los Angeles tell a different story. What they show is that Rupert Murdoch can indeed retain control of News Corp without even raising a sweat. But his children almost certainly won’t. Continue reading →