Tv Weather Announcment Hacked

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03-15-2004, 09:06 AM
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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system

By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Mar 4 2004 3:27PM

 
A Raleigh, North Carolina cable news channel shut down a Web application designed to allow local schools and businesses to report weather-related closings last week, after a handful of puckish university students discovered they could use it to add textual graffiti to the station's newscast.

Before the system was shut down, viewers tuning into Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina for updates on last week's record-breaking snow storm could read in the text ticker on the lower third of the screen that a company called "h4x0r3d Computer Services Inc." was among the business that would be shuttered the next morning because of the storm.

According to  screen shots saved by observers, other messages sprinkled among the genuine closings that rotated through the ticker included "1337 5p34k Linguistic Services," "All Your Base Are Belong To Us," and a note that "Tutone Inc." would be closed, and employees should call "Jenny at 867-5309" for more details.

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Loved it! :lol:
03-15-2004, 11:05 AM
b4icu

ROFL

All Your Base Are Belong To Us
03-15-2004, 11:16 AM
pusher

I laughed really hard at the Tutone Inc. line. That was hilarious. A lot of the pictures don't work for me though but the one's that I saw were funny nonetheless. :lol:
03-15-2004, 11:19 AM
BigBoo

whats tutone? :blink:

i only wish we did it first :unsure:
03-15-2004, 11:23 AM
pusher

Tommy Tutone was the band/guy who sang the song "Jenny 867-5309." The line on the weather station read "Tutone Inc. would be closed, and employees should call "Jenny at 867-5309" for more details.
03-15-2004, 01:56 PM
Busyman

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Hilarious!!!!!

Colonel Angus Chicken :lol: :lol:

Bring Em Young
----Contact R Kelly for details. :lol: :lol:

B. Lo Mi Dry Cleaning Services
----Contact Johnathen Holmes or Baua Lo Mi for more :lol:

Watkins Family Reunion Service
----Holla at P. Nis for more info
You how we do

Cecil's Cockring Emporium
----Back up tomorrow

BWN Law Firm
---Contact D.U. Boen for more info
03-15-2004, 01:58 PM
Aaron_T

:lol:
03-15-2004, 02:31 PM
Samurai

:lol: Windows Exception Error

Please reinstall Windows :lol:
03-15-2004, 08:26 PM
dwightfry

Here are screenshots of most of the fake closings

all screenshots
03-15-2004, 08:43 PM
Canti

Glorious!
03-16-2004, 12:33 AM
dwightfry

This should get moved to the funny section. It is pretty damn funny.
03-16-2004, 12:37 AM
bujub22

:lol: :lol: :lol:
03-16-2004, 02:48 PM
dwightfry

Oh yeah, the text file included has the website that this started. The thread is 25 pages long. It starts with a post explaining what to do, and from there you can follow their conversation as they start posting ideas, and then comes the "OMG, they put mine on the air" posts. After that comes the screenshots, and then the station stopped airing the announcements, so some members actually called the station and comlained. The station claimed that they had been "Hacked", all they did was fill out their online forum. :rolleyes:
03-16-2004, 03:52 PM
BigBoo

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Originally posted by dwightfry@16 March 2004 - 00:33
This should get moved to the funny section. It is pretty damn funny.

whats your point? nothing in funny stuff is funny