The Israelis used a commercially-available encryption scheme, VideoCrypt, which was brute-forced (albeit slowly) as early as 1994.  Then it&#x27;s just a matter of intercepting the satellite signal from somewhere within its downlink footprint.<p>The article dates to 2010 and it sounded like the Israelis were switching to a better encryption scheme even back then, so I&#x27;d expect this information is strategically useless now.  VideoCrypt was probably more of a &quot;fences make good neighbors&quot; thing to keep Hezbollah from seeing their drone feeds quite so easily.<p>Also on the &quot;dates to 2010&quot; thing, this is probably something that could be GPU-accelerated nowadays.