Archive for the ‘Hacking’ Category

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The Toilet Server

January 10, 2007

When Don arrived at one particular location to setup the network, he discovered that the project manager had a slightly different interpretation for “a secure and well-ventilated location”: The Men’s Room.

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NSA Admits To Microsoft Vista “Contributions”

January 10, 2007

“According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as ‘No Such Agency’ has admitted making ‘unspecified contributions’ to Vista. The assistance is at the US taxpayers’ expense, although the NSA says it all makes perfect sense.” Innocent? Probably. But how can you tell?

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The Last Large Scale Commercial TV Signal Hijacking

January 9, 2007

On 22 November 1987, sports anchor Dan Roan of Chicago’s WGN-TV News Network was narrating the video of the day’s football highlights when something highly unusual happened. The pictures on the station monitors in the studio & TVs across Chicago suddenly began to jitter & twitch & the feed was replaced with an sinister feed of a masked TV pirate.

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