Posted on 01/30/2024 1:44:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
I remember seeing the WTTW hack.
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That turned out to be a worker at an uplink facility that simply aimed their uplink dish at the HBO satellite and overrode the regular HBO feed briefly.
I got a small medallion of MAX on my tool box 🧰 .
Never knew of This hijack
Bizarro World.
A grade D, low budget, backwater movie called “broadcast signal interruption” smacks of this story.
To me it’s one of those super cheap movies that is actually good and overall creepy.
Kayfabe
Why would the station want t stage it?
The two hack in this article are humorous, I wonder if a nefarious group could actually take over a major broadcaster to make a political statement.
For example, suppose a hacker group took over the signal just as the Super Bowl in 2 week was kicking off, millions of people would see it live and it wouldn’t take long to put out a threat or some type of political broadcast.
"You want the solution to inflation? Hi, friends. Marshall Lucky here for New Deal Used Cars, where we're lowering inflation not only by fighting high prices, not only by murdering high prices, but by blowing the living shit out of high prices. Yes sir. Here's an example. It's a 1972 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, for sixty-two ninety-nine. That price is too high."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjeUuakHsLw
Back in the olden days of television, there was a 2 GHz microwave link from the studio out to the location of the main TV transmitter, called the Studio-Transmitter Link, or STL for short.
This looks to me like someone with a live truck, that also has a 2 GHz microwave transmitter to get video back to the studio from a live remote, was used to override the WGN STL and put on their own video.
If a live remote truck was used, then the hijackers could have used anybody's garage for a studio and simply transmit from their neighborhood.
Cadillac man?
Used Cars.
too bad no one does that now during Xiden State of the Union Address!!
man that is reaching back. I watched bits and pieces of that movie, but missed that part.
Still broadcast signal interruption, is a good creepy movie to watch.
Lenny and Squiggy!! 😆😎
M-M-M-Max Headroom???
I resemble that remark.
"A Mercedes 450SL for Twenty-four thousand dollars? That's too f'n high!"
The Southern Television broadcast interruption came through the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom at 5:10 pm on 26th November 1977. A speaker interrupted transmissions for six minutes and claimed to be a representative of an “Intergalactic Association.”
The voice, which was disguised with a voice distorter, with a deep buzzing in the background, interrupted the local ITV news. It was audio only that was heard as the UHF audio signal of the early-evening news was over-ridden. The voice warned, “All your weapons of evil must be removed” and “You have but a short time to learn to live together in peace!”
Shortly after the statement had been delivered, transmissions returned to normal shortly and the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon could be seen. Southern Television later apologised for what it described as "a breakthrough in sound" for some viewers.
Were any of the weapons of evil removed?
How about replacing the Super Bowl with a pirate broadcast of Taylor Swift’s concert movie? Would anyone be able to tell the difference from the constant NFL Taylor updates?
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