The Max Headroom Incident • Hacker News Board

Retric wrote: post #63

asdff wrote: post #47

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People actually used to save stories that were interesting or cut them out of the paper, or go to the library and read a book on the subject. Fastforward to today, with the world at their fingertips, and who even saves anything anymore? It's all transient information on the web today. That interactive nyt article you might have bookmarked a few years ago has probably link rotted by now. If it wasn't for wikipedia cat…

Internet archive is doing actual archival work. But at an even more basic level old methods to archive stuff are still in active use.

> Internet archive is doing actual archival work.

SPA-all-the-things takes care of that.

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by natded » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 6:33 AM UTC

I give you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by kevin_thibedeau » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 6:35 AM UTC

bluedevil2k wrote: post #36

0des wrote: post #20

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I celebrate the guy's entire catalog, anyway, let's get down to business - If you like Max Headroom, another great classic that you may or may not remember from that era is Alien Nation (which also stood the test of time)

That’s screaming for a remake. The original movie and TV series have been lost to time but the story is compelling and could easily be part of some procedrual drama with added flair today. Or even a 10 episode season on HBO with a grittier feel to it (more sour milk in other words).

District 9 borrows the backstory so that has to age out first.

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by junon » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 6:50 AM UTC

Tho85 wrote: post #55

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...

Wow the editing for that time was really well done. Looks almost completely real.

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by liketochill » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 6:52 AM UTC

natded wrote: post #183

I give you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

There is nothing better about that? destruction of property causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage is not hacking. Destroying stuff with guns is not hacking. - electrical engineer that has to organize shutdowns to replace insulators on transmission lines that are damaged from people shooting them

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by detaro » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 6:53 AM UTC

natded wrote: post #183

I give you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

In what way is that "better"? People can go shoot things, big whoop.

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by mike_d » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 7:10 AM UTC

natded wrote: post #183

I give you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

I think you mean in the sense of unsolved mysteries?

The Metcalf attack was most likely done by CWA union employees, who were in a labor dispute with AT&T at the time. Two fiber vaults had AT&T fibers cut, and the Metcalf station was the primary source of power for the SNJSCA02 central office.

Two years later DHS indicated during an energy conference they had not identified the exact attacker but believed it was an insider. https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/16/technology/sniper-power-gri...

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by natded » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 7:18 AM UTC

detaro wrote: post #187

natded wrote: post #183

I give you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

In what way is that "better"? People can go shoot things, big whoop.

A mystery incident of course.

Re: The Max Headroom Incident

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Post by detaro » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 7:36 AM UTC

natded wrote: post #189

detaro wrote: post #187

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In what way is that "better"? People can go shoot things, big whoop.

A mystery incident of course.

Hm, I feel like that there is no challenge to "how did they do that" hurts in that regard.