Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system

Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-03-04

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.

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Pranksters snow TV weather announcment system 2004-03-05
Anonymous (1 replies)

a little humor never hurts on a weather channel IMO......

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Pranksters snow TV weather announcment system 2004-03-12
Anonymous

All I have to say is .... Guffaw !!...

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Pranksters snow TV weather announcment system 2004-03-06
Scott

You have to admit, it was pretty funny, and sombody had a good sence of humor to think of this. Its just to bad it went to far....

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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2004-03-08
Anonymous

HAHAHAHAHA - This made my day...

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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2004-03-10
Anonymous

How come Tom Ridge hasn't kicked in people'd doors for messing with an emergency warning system like that dude who made WebTVs dial 911?...

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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2004-03-10
Anonymous (1 replies)

This would have to be the funniest thing i have seen in a while ... Didnt hurt anyone ... Didnt damage anything ... Well done...

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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2004-03-15
Anonymous

if they went farther saying that real businesses were closed, then that would have been too far.

but making up fake stuff didn't hurt anyone...

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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2004-03-11
Anonymous

I'm on board with the others, very well executed, I think the Tom Ridge post was right on the mark. Surprised they aren't sending NCSU students to Git-mo. :)...

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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2004-03-11
Anonymous

I thought this was really funny too, granted I think that if the FCC is going to be little punks to people like howard stern (listener said the N word) then they should hold this station accountable for what was shown on air......

but all in all this was really frickin hillarious...

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Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2004-03-12
Angry Johnny (1 replies)

Bored kids.... Still that was damn funny. ...

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Re: Pranksters bedevil TV weather announcment system 2005-12-17
Anonymous

HAHA..thanks guys. I'm actually the guy that posted "h4x0r3d Computer Services". It was great fun while it was live. And they're wrong. Half of them werent even edited afterwards...they were posted like that from the beginning. The person in charge of reviewing them must have been a slacker an...

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