The hijacker proceeded to hum a tune of the 1966 song 'Your love is fading' by the Temptations. Later, Swirsky said he was concerned about his safety as he was seemingly singled out in the transmission for no apparent reason. WGN's sportscaster Chuck Swirsky was singled out as a 'frickin' liberal,' followed by a show of a Pepsi can while calling a slogan used by Coca-Cola. There wasn't much coherence in the 90-second-long video, as the culprit glided over seemingly random subjects. The culprits interrupted an episode of Doctor Who, opening with a line 'He's a fricking nerd,' followed by a digitalized laughter akin to the one heard in the original Max Headroom show. Around 11:20 PM on the same night, hackers penetrated the signal of another Chicago-based station, WTTW.
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It took a second attempt at hijacking the TV signal for viewers to hear what the people behind the Max Headroom mask had to say. Like in a tale of modern horror, the ghost of Headroom used to pop into broadcasts, sharing snarly, sometimes off-beat jokes with a pinch of social commentary. Headroom's hacker friend preserved his brain and uploaded it to the network, making the former journalist a digital entity. In the TV show, Max Headroom was a journalist who was assassinated over digging dirt on the corporation that owned the TV station he worked at. In reality, the computer-generated appearance of the character was created with prosthetic makeup put on by Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer. The original show featured a fictional 'artificial intelligence' character. The culprit was wearing a mask imitating Max Headroom, a fictional British TV character. "Well, if you're wondering what's happened, so am I," sports anchor Dan Roan commented once the stations' engineers managed to get the regular broadcast back on-air. It was unclear whether the character had anything to say, as a screeching digital noise accompanied the interruption.īaffled, WGN-TV's engineers cut off the intrusion by changing the signal frequency linking the broadcast studio to the station. A ten-second black screen interrupted the broadcast at first, followed by a creepy-looking masked person in front of a corrugated metal background. The first intrusion occurred during the sports segment of Chicago's WGN-TV newscast and lasted for about 25 seconds. And the more you read about the hack, the stranger it gets.
From a modern perspective, the Max Headroom hack looks like a scene from a hacker flick like Mr.
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