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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 2004-03-11
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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