Claude Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 (edited) Hackers smuggle mushroom cloud into CT's live broadcasting By Prague Daily Monitor/ČTK / Published 18 June 2007 Prague, June 17 (CTK) - The Ztohoven artistic group hacked into the Panorama morning programme of public Czech Television's CT2 channel with an image of a mushroom cloud with a reference to the group's web page. Czech Television has already filed a criminal complaint against damaging intellectual rights and scare mongering. The police have started to investigate the case. CT spokesman Martin Krafl told CTK that the group succeeded with the help of the internet and further technology to hack into a camera broadcasting live from the Krkonose (Giant) Mountains, east Bohemia. Krafl stressed that broadcasting from CT's headquarters has not been affected. He said the camera into which the group hacked is operated by an external firm that cooperates with CT. Krafl said Czech Television has already found out the owner of the internet address. The perpetrators face one year in prison for their pirate spot lasting about 30 seconds, CT said. Panorama is broadcast every morning, featuring many places in the country shot by panoramic cameras, and offering weather information. Krafl said the programme is viewed by fewer than 50,000 people in this season of the year. This has not been the first action by the controversial Ztohoven group. Its members also changed into a question mark the red neon heart by Jiri David that was installed at Prague Castle during the last days of Vaclav Havel's tenure as Czech president. In 2003 they covered 800 advertising showcases in Prague's underground with white posters featuring a large black question mark and a reference to their internet pages. One of the group members said they wanted to alert people to how advertisements "abuse our innermost desires, ideas and feelings in order to sell goods." http://launch.praguemonitor.com/en/108/prague_news/8351/ Here's a video of the hacked broadcast: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cUJc9zjpchE Edited June 18, 2007 by Claude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoGrubb Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 A sick sense of humor, sorta Orson Wellsish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I laughed. It's pretty obviously fake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 I laughed. It's pretty obviously fake. Ya think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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