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posted by martyb on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the shoulda-played-Tetris,-instead dept.

Indonesian police have arrested a man accused of hacking into a public billboard in Jakarta and streaming a pornographic film.

The 24-year-old IT analyst has admitted the crime, said police, for which he could face up to six years in jail.

Motorists were left in shock last week when footage from a Japanese porn film was displayed on an electronic screen in south Jakarta.

The video ran for five minutes on Friday before power was eventually cut.

However the clip had already been captured on many mobile phones and soon spread across social media.

The man, who was arrested in his office, allegedly carried out the prank after seeing login details displayed on the billboard.

Now that's a hack!


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  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday October 06 2016, @08:45AM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Thursday October 06 2016, @08:45AM (#411017) Journal

    So did the billboard display a URL or IP address as well as the login details? One isn't much use without the other. Also, if porn is banned in that country, presumably you need to use a VPN or proxy to get around it. If the culprit knew enough about VPNs and proxies to get porn up on the screen, then why didn't he know enough to hide his own IP address and not get caught? Or was he streaming not from the web, but from his own hard drive? Because that would be monumentally stupid.

    Unless... the person now sitting in a cell ISN'T the one who did it (despite the confession, we all know how easy those are to extract) and the real perpetrator is currently laughing his arse off from behind his 7 proxies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @12:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @12:24PM (#411060)

    > Also, if porn is banned in that country, presumably you need to use a VPN or proxy to get around it.

    Its hilarious you would believe that. Have you ever used the internet?

    • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:30PM

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:30PM (#411079) Journal

      In my country there are numerous websites that are "banned" (torrent sites, mostly) and that can only be accessed via proxy / VPN. Other countries are known to have more comprehensive blacklists and technologies. Never heard of the Great Firewall? I don't know what the situation is in Malaysia but it's not unreasonable to imagine that they might have a big national blacklist of porn video sites.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:49PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:49PM (#411085)

        Must have been big arse billboard for the guy to see it in jakarta from malaysia.

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:01PM

          by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:01PM (#411133) Journal

          Sorry, I must have been channelling Derek Zoolander there. My apologies to the good people of Micronesia.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:32PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:32PM (#411167)

            Malaysia is another majority-Muslim place at over 61 percent.
            Indonesia (which, at 250 million, is the 4th-most-populous country) is over 87 percent Muslim, making it the most-Muslim nation.

            ...and oh, yeah, this topic (a hair-on-fire reaction to a little porn) is an example of why you don't want your country to be a theocracy.

            -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:57PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:57PM (#411181)

              > ...and oh, yeah, this topic (a hair-on-fire reaction to a little porn) is an example of why you don't want your country to be a theocracy.

              Fallacy much?

              A country having a majority single religion does not make that country a theocracy. Mexico is 85% catholic, nobody thinks Mexico is a theocracy.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:10PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:10PM (#411467)

                Catholics don't beat, rape, force convert, murder and kill people who don't follow their religion on the grounds that those people are not catholic. See Iran, Iraq and several other countries for a guide on what happens in islam dominated countries.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @02:48PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @02:48PM (#411504)

                  No, they save their beatings and rapings for those already within the faith.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @06:29PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @06:29PM (#411570)

                  You need to study some history.
                  A good place to start would be majority-Catholic Ireland in the preceding century.

                  We recently discussed majority-Catholic Poland.
                  In that thread, Latin America was also mentioned by Z-A,z-a,01234. [soylentnews.org]

                  The California mission system with its slavery of indigenous people, using food as a weapon, and hunting down those who escaped the oppression after "voluntarily converting" to Catholicism.
                  Junipero Serra may have been declared a "saint", but he was an evil oppressor whose primary task was enriching the Spanish crown.

                  More recently, there's Mother Teresa, another "saint".
                  The truth is, again, that her primary task was raising money and pushing her political agenda.
                  The poor people she claimed to be serving were always way down on the list of priorities.
                  She is yet another example of "trickle down" being a sham.
                  She said that pain (for poor people that she claimed to represent, but whom she actually victimized) was a gift from God, so she didn't spend any of the cash she raised on pain medication for the poor.
                  Mother Theresa's Masochism: Does Religion Demand Suffering to Keep People Passive? [alternet.org]

                  her institutions have offered a standard of care that would provoke international outrage if it were provided by, say the United Nations rather than an affiliate of the Vatican

                  Oh, and when she died, it wasn't in one of her own hospitals; it was in a fancy-schmancy big-city place.
                  You can bet that *she* was loaded up on painkillers.

                  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:08PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:08PM (#411094)

        And you can't find even one, nobody you know knows about any of those banned sites. And there are no other methods of getting those files...
        Is this a subtle troll or just a complaint about your countries banned list?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:53PM (#411111)

        > In my country there are numerous websites that are "banned" (torrent sites, mostly) and that can only be accessed via proxy / VPN.

        Are you being serious? Citing the fact that some websites are blocked is not proof that all websites are blocked any more than saying that the cops stop speeding drivers means that all speeding drivers are stopped.

        > Never heard of the Great Firewall?

        So what? You don't have to go through the firewall to get porn, you only have to know someone who knows someone who has gone through it and is willing to give you a copy of what they got. Also known as having friends.

        • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday October 07 2016, @03:01PM

          by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday October 07 2016, @03:01PM (#411510) Journal

          >Are you being serious? Citing the fact that some websites are blocked is not proof that all websites are blocked

          No, but I never offered it as proof that all websites in that country are blocked, only as proof that the technology exists for governments to block websites at a national level.

          > So what? You don't have to go through the firewall to get porn,

          Never said you did, Champ. In fact, if you read my original post, you will see that I acknowledged the possibility that the guy already had the porn on his own hard drive.

          What exactly is your problem? I mean, apart from the obvious.

      • (Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:27PM

        by PocketSizeSUn (5340) on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:27PM (#411125)

        I am unaware of any websites that are blocked or banned from within Indonesia.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:59PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:59PM (#411182)

          Since when do facts matter on soylent?
          It is sufficient that aunty believes there is an internet filter.
          Perception is reality.

          • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday October 07 2016, @02:54PM

            by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday October 07 2016, @02:54PM (#411507) Journal

            Note the word "presumably" in my post I deliberately flagged it as an assumption because I DIDN'T want to make a statement of fact when I didn't know the facts.

            YOU are the one making erroneous statements ("aunty believes") and presenting them as fact. I suggest you get out of your glass house before throwing any more stones.