ISIS: You bomb us, we’ll interrupt your TV transmissions TV5Monde was prevented from broadcasting last night, and claims to still be working on a return to its regular programming schedule, after "hackers" interrupted its transmissions for a couple of hours. The signal jammers claimed affiliation with ISIS and took to the French broadcaster's social media accounts to spam the world …
I've seen TV5Monde. (Well, actually, TV5Quebec. Same thing.) Those script kiddies deserve a medal and a bacon sandwich for knocking it off the air.
See further the current line-up for TV5 in the US (I couldn't get online access to TV5Quebec for some reason, and really can't be arsed to find out why) http://www.tv5monde.com/cms/USA/p-29774-s-z-lg3-TV5Monde-Etats-unis.htm
Warning: they want to dump cookies on your system and are excessively French about it.
Hey, ISIS scripters... do y'all take requests? I've got a long list of tv channels which really should face the Wrath of the Desert Scripter. And, as a reward, I've got some nice pix of Muhammed and a big plate of bacon sandwiches for y'all. Have at it.
I don't think ISIS would really want a bacon sarnie....
On that subject, one of the guys in our French office who used to work in London (and is Muslim) spent several weeks petitionniong our local kebab joint to upgrade their kebab meat to crispy fried bacon. Now that would be a thursday night kebab to hammer.
Beer. As tonight is beer night. Like most thursdays.
"I've seen TV5Monde. (Well, actually, TV5Quebec. Same thing.) Those script kiddies deserve a medal and a bacon sandwich for knocking it off the air."
That's a very unfair judgement. You obviously haven't seen the FTA shite we french get here. TV5 Monde is actually largely decent vs. this, and is even grand when you're working in countries where there's no TV to speak of. I was in Qatar last year and I can tell you I was all joy whenever the hotel had it.
Compared with idiotic American TV shows (try watching overweight girls choosing their wedding gown, those boring fake trials, worst driver, survivor sagas etc.), I'll take TV5 programs any time especially when I'm looking for some world news presented from a different point of view than what's on the menu of US agenda. Please note I'm neither English or French, I'm just pretty much bilingual and at an equal distance from both cultures.
"The Register asked Ericsson whether its upgrades may have introduced vulnerabilities to the broadcast platform, but the telecoms giant categorically denied it had anything to do with it."
Actually, he/she probably said something along the lines of, "God. I hope not." :-)
"The earliest known broadcast signal intrusion dates back to 1977, when an audio message purporting to come from outer space was broadcast on ITN."
Please try and research before publishing, ever heard of Aspidistra? British counter intelligence was rather proficient at intruding/hijacking/emulating German domestic broadcasts during WW2. When an enemy air-raid was imminent both sides would silence all localised radio transmitters to prevent their use for direction finding. But we had a rather large (in fact the largest in the world) frequency agile transmitter in the sussex woods that would, within milliseconds, open up on whatever channel the Germans had just switched off and broadcast some confusing "grey" propaganda. "This is a false air-raid alarm, please go about your business as normal" kind of thing, or "ignore any messages you hear on other radio stations, the enemy have hijacked our frequencies"
It was by all accounts, rather successful, though I am sure broadcast hijacking happened even before then.
I'm sure they were thinking of TV.
You are quite correct about WWII domestic Radio.
As Domestic Radio only started about 1922, any WWI tomfoolery would have been military.
Interference though on commercial Morse from other commercial stations and "Amateurs" was common enough from 1900s to 1914.
Sales of radio kits to public to listen to time signals and commercial radio telegraph traffic was from about 1912, about 10 years before scheduled public voice broadcasts.
No, earlier.
Terrestrial TV transmitters when they lost signal feed briefly look "off air" at previous TX mast in the system.
Before 1976, a guy in an a van in Japan with VTR on a hill top waited till close down and kept most of the chain up with his porn.
The BBC had an incident in 1970s were they closed earlier than RTE. The newish RTE transmitter in Longford was on same channel as a Scottish transmitter. Divis, outside Belfast, of course retransmitted RTE till their close down. I don't remember which year it was. Perhaps 1976 or 1977 or 1978. But the Japanese incident was earlier.
Broadcasters added security after these incidents.
There is nothing wrong with your reality television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder (katie hopkins), we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer (the flumps), we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal (Katie Price). We will control the vertical (Katie Price). We can roll the image (Katie Price), make it flutter (Katie Price). We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity (Curved UHD bollocks). For the next few decades, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear (if you see it like advertisers, it's marketing, you think and feel what we want you to, if you don't it's off to the nut house for you soon). We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your mind control box. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the (shock and) awe and mystery which reaches from the inner idiot to – The US governments continued fucking about in the middle east and the worlds communications networks.
I'm not a commie btw and I support no violence anywhere ever, I just think that at some point if they don't start listening to common sense it's going to be forced on them by their own people who have just about had enough of the constant bullshit on tv and the constant bullshit politicians speak... Apparently there's a club you can't speak of...
Anyway who am I to judge/think/have a view of an ideal world.
Cough How about doing this to Sky by hacking their satellite uplink freq which is trivial to do with £900 worth of hardware and a H filled balloon with an autodetach payload and wipe system memory/etc if approached by jets /cough
Yeah, Murdoch would probably deploy the nukes if someone did this, even if the outage was only an hour when every single satellite RX got reprogrammed to wipe out its firmware apart from "Emergency Broadcast Signal" .. yeah, total ownage.
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