The Max Headroom Incident

It's funny to think that someone out there *knows* who it was. The woman in the maid outfit at least knows the location, if nothing else. I'm surprised she didn't leak anything about it by now.

Here's a crazy idea. What if the guy behind this *was* caught but it was kept under wraps because reporting on the investigation might encourage copy cats because information on *how* he did it might get out?

There could have been some easy way to hijack the signal that the station didn't want anyone to know. It wouldn't work now (obviously) but it might have been something costly to prevent back then.

That's an interesting theory... but I don't think he'd have to keep a lid on it nowadays since the technology has changed in such a way that it's difficult to override a digital television ( ATSB ) signal. It can be jammed but it would be almost impossible to hijack remotely without actually compromising the TV station itself.

By the way, people who would attempt to hack into things like that should really re-evaluate their lives if they have such skills yet such unproductive ideas for how to apply that knowledge.

Definitely.

I'm going to go, actually. Whenever I pulled, bad things happen. Sports sounds like a good thing. Will video be questionable?

Distance can't reach. Show makes sense to me. I'm going to say, actually.

That's interesting.

Nitrocosm, did't you post something one hour ago?

The video was questionable. It was a pirate broadcast, after all.

That broadcast lasted almost two minutes, which makes it weirder that they weren't able to track the signal. That's plenty of time unless the station and the FCC were both - completely - unprepared for that kind of thing happening.