CHAPTER 3: UNINTENTIONAL CRIMEWARE
This chapter describes the “gray area” software: legitimate commercial software that is made for legitimate, non-criminal purposes, but which can be used by a malicious user to steal, disrupt, and manipulate.
SkyGrabber
The creators of SkyGrabber, a small Russian software company named SkySoftware, describe SkyGrabber as:
offline satellite internet downloader. It accepts free to air (FTA) satellite data (movie, music, pictures) by digital satellite TV tuner card (DVB-S/DVB-S2) and saves information onto a hard disk. So, you’ll get new movie, best music and funny pictures for free.
You don’t have to keep an online internet connection.41
It sounds innocent enough, although at second look this software could be ...
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