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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 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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