Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Hacker's Human Hydraulics Humor Hampers Highway Headway

Traffic chaos as Russian hacker beams pornographic film onto billboard

"Russian police have arrested a prankster who hacked into a computer system to beam a pornographic movie on a giant advertising screen, causing havoc on a busy Moscow thoroughfare.
The two-minute clip, which was displayed on a video screen above a main road south of the Kremlin, caused midnight traffic jams and a frenzy of excitement across the Russian blogosphere.
Police said the hacker gained control of the screen by breaking into an online company's server in the volatile southern region of Chechnya as "he didn't think the police would go looking for him there".

"(The hacker) is a highly-educated, temporarily unemployed and extremely advanced internet user," police said. "The scandalous film was the talk of the town."
Police would not release the man's name but said he had been hacking into computers out of "curiosity" and to "sharpen his skills."
The 40-year-old man said he wanted to "give people a laugh", the popular daily Kommersant reported."


Rumor has it that it was only a J. D. Salinger tribute called
"Catch Her In The Eye".

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