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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 (1 replies)
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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