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Re:The Max Headroom Incident by Tho85 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:36PM (#29321405)
This always reminds me of the 2007 incident on Czech TV, where someone hijacked a weather panorama broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea4eft_3p-I

IIRC the panorama cam was connected to the Internet and had been hacked, so no microwave magic there. Good execution nonetheless...

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Re:The Max Headroom Incident by laulis on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:57PM (#29322538)
It was not connected to the internet, they actually went to the place, and I believe they have switched out the coax cable which was coming from the camera with their own input.

There was a mini-montage back in the day of them pulling this off.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNHJrQzB1g

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Re:The Max Headroom Incident by flenserboy on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:47PM (#29321577)
The music...the camera bounce...the fuzz at the end. Marvelous work.
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Re:The Max Headroom Incident by junon on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:50AM (#29327529)
Wow the editing for that time was really well done. Looks almost completely real.
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Re:The Max Headroom Incident by lqet on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @06:09AM (#29328836)
Brilliant.
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