| OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198441] |
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Jaspah
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http://www4.ncsu.edu/~smheath/news14.html
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News 14 Carolina gets pwnt
On February 26, 2004, we had a snowstorm here in Raleigh, and all the news channels posted the businesses and schools that would be closed the next day. One of these fine news organizations, Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina, chose the most convenient but least secure method to allow businesses to report closings: the Internet. Well, it wasn't long before members of The Wolf Web, an NCSU message board, exposed this flaw. They went crazy, as you're about to see. The best part of the whole thing was once a closing was accepted, it could be edited on the Internet and would go straight to TV without having to be reviewed again, so a fake closing that seemed plausible the first time it was shown could be outrageous the next time.
Click here to read the thread on The Wolf Web.
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LOL.
That's priceless.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198593 is a reply to message #198441] |
Wed, 03 May 2006 09:35  |
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I think its hilarious that everyone was talking about how they pay for their servers out of pocket, and script kiddies are lower than life. Then when it happends to anyone else its the woot train.
Woot woot.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198597 is a reply to message #198593] |
Wed, 03 May 2006 10:33 |
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| Oblivion165 wrote on Wed, 03 May 2006 11:35 |
I think its hilarious that everyone was talking about how they pay for their servers out of pocket, and script kiddies are lower than life. Then when it happends to anyone else its the woot train.
Woot woot.
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The difference is that in this case, only time was lost, not money. In a gameserver's case, you're losing money if you're not getting any players. In TV's case, you're losing money if you're not getting any viewers. I daresay that that dodgy move by some people had actually increased TV viewage for a while.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198646 is a reply to message #198597] |
Thu, 04 May 2006 09:51 |
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| Kanezor wrote on Wed, 03 May 2006 13:33 |
| Oblivion165 wrote on Wed, 03 May 2006 11:35 |
I think its hilarious that everyone was talking about how they pay for their servers out of pocket, and script kiddies are lower than life. Then when it happends to anyone else its the woot train.
Woot woot.
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The difference is that in this case, only time was lost, not money. In a gameserver's case, you're losing money if you're not getting any players. In TV's case, you're losing money if you're not getting any viewers. I daresay that that dodgy move by some people had actually increased TV viewage for a while.
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Im sure the FCC fine they got for that was drastically more than a gamespy server loss. It doesn't matter if they weren't the cause of it, they are responsible for every broadcast they make.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198695 is a reply to message #198441] |
Thu, 04 May 2006 19:51 |
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Because they used an expliot to do those changes, same range of crap.
They get fined everytime a streaker runs past the camera. Its even bigger if they ackowledge it.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198735 is a reply to message #198441] |
Fri, 05 May 2006 05:41 |
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Because they used an expliot to do those changes, same range of crap.
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If by exploit you mean the person reviewing the submissions wasn't doing his job, then yeah you're right. This has absolutely nothing to do with script kiddies, hacking, etc. How is trying to close down a server by attacking it with whatever program the same as submitting funny/stupid fake company closings to a news channel website?
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They get fined everytime a streaker runs past the camera. Its even bigger if they ackowledge it.
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Wait, a streaker, lol? Yeah, because we all know how having "h4x0r3d Computer Services inc.", "PWNT Industries", or even "Cecil's Cockring Emporium" at the bottom of screen for a few seconds, are anywhere comparable at all to a naked person running across the camera.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198739 is a reply to message #198441] |
Fri, 05 May 2006 05:55 |
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because jesus frowns upon both of those actions.
Oderint, dum metuant.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198787 is a reply to message #198441] |
Fri, 05 May 2006 14:52 |
Kanezor
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A naked person running across the camera is obscene.
"h4x0r3d Computer Services inc.", "PWNT Industries", or even "Cecil's Cockring Emporium" running across the television isn't obscene. It's funny. If it were "you're a cunt" or something similar, then it would be obscene. Although, the 'cockring emporium' does come pretty close to being obscene.
Fact is, there's not a lot that the station can do about some naked guy running across the camera -- save for intentionally distorting it, which can be rather hard on live TV. A ticker on the bottom of your screen, though, can very easily be manually filtered.
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| Re: OT: News 14 Carolina gets "pwnt" [message #198889 is a reply to message #198441] |
Sat, 06 May 2006 22:31 |
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Oblivion165
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It doesnt matter what degree it was, it wasnt pre-approved by the broadcasting head of the department. The same group of guys that approved the original entries no doubt.
Just because 99% of people wouldnt find it offensive, doesnt matter. They must maintain all systems and be incharge of every single thing that they broadcast.
So no manner of "oh it didnt count" or "i dont find that offensive" will change it. It wasnt approved for broadcast.
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