Like the recently launched Facebook Stories, Live appears to be another way for the company to drum up some positive publicity for itself, and to open another channel of communication between the network and its users.
After explaining the basic process by which mobile phones authenticate then get an openchannel on a GSM base station or network tower, the Grugq then offered up a series of ways that this process could be thwarted.
This year only the U.S. Women's Open is on a major network, but Whan said he hopes that NBC, Golf Channel's corporate sibling, will air four or five tournaments in 2013.