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From ArsTechnica: Men hack electronic billboard, play porn on it
Police are trying to find two men who broke into the control room of an electronic billboard in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills. The men caused a pornographic video to play on both sides of the billboard, which is located next to Interstate 75, around 11pm on Saturday evening. Videos of the billboard quickly began to circulate on social media (link is mildly NSFW).
"Two suspects entered a small building, which houses a computer that runs the content for the digital billboard, located underneath the sign," Auburn Hills police reported in a Facebook page. Police shared surveillance footage showing the two men with their faces obscured by glasses and by hoodies pulled tight around their heads.
[...] [The] video could be seen along I-75 for 15 to 20 minutes, police say.
Calm down, already! Don't get so excited. It's just a video file. Get hold of yourself!
(Score: 3, Funny) by black6host on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:01AM (1 child)
For Teslas and self-driving cars!!! This is the future my fellow Soylentils! (That ain't no center console, it's a tissue box holder!) :)
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:23AM
From center fold to center console.
(Score: 5, Funny) by mendax on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:16AM (3 children)
What part of my body should I "get a hold of" while watching the content of this billboard?
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Thursday October 03 2019, @06:44AM
Your ankles
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday October 03 2019, @01:29PM
If you don't know, it can only mean that even your own body has rejected you...
I did not know that this was possible... but it would put you with a social status even lower than an incel.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:05PM
As the "dept" line says, Your Eyes! Cover your eyes at any and all times while driving on I-75. Thank you.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:29AM (6 children)
It's amazing what qualifies as hacking these days. This is more like breaking and entering and swapping the regular DVD with
a better oneporn.(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:37AM (1 child)
It's still God's work.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 03 2019, @07:36AM
God moves in a bit more mysterious ways than this, don't blame her (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Thursday October 03 2019, @08:25AM (3 children)
When everything else is connected to the internet, how is it advertising billboards are running standalone media?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:08PM
Maybe it's not possible to get intarwebs service at remote billboard locations.
Of course they could probably use cellular network devices.
Or satellite intarweb tubes optimized for download and pessimized for upload.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:29PM
Simple. They need to be secure from Russian influence. For everything else, there's Facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Monday October 07 2019, @03:00PM
Maybe they were worried about security?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @07:12AM (3 children)
Did they ask them for their gender?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @07:39AM (2 children)
No need. They are white and with an interest in porn, can only be men!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday October 03 2019, @06:27PM (1 child)
You can't conclude that they have an interest in porn. They probably have chosen porn for the expected effect on others. That effect was what they were interested in.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:32PM
[Citation needed] What p-value?
From probable to certitude, eh?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Thursday October 03 2019, @11:28AM
It doesn't show actual penetration I guess.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 03 2019, @12:49PM (1 child)
At the speeds they drive they'd be the only ones who get to watch the whole video...
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @02:00PM
And they need teh stimulation too.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:17PM
It seems like there would be much more gooder videos to play on a video billboard.
Fake advertisements. Fake news. UFO Invasion Public Service Warnings. Perhaps more credible than UFOs would be Nuclear Attack warnings. Tune to AM 1610 for latest information on incoming nuclear attacks against the US.
Fake ads for implausibly good deals on something five miles up the road, such as a fuel station or restaurant.
Or "don't tempt me" ads . . . Free McWhopper Meal in exchange for any 2 children . . . 5 Mi. Ahead.
All New! Genuine All Beef burgers carefully engineered to have the same taste and texture as the new veggie burgers!!!
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