Hacker Turns Canadian PM Into Baby Eater

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Now _that's_ a great hack. :-)

Via The Globe and Mail.

[snip]

A case of "electronic vandalism" mocking the Prime Minister has left a media company red-faced after a hacker tampered 
with advertising signs on Toronto commuter trains to read "Stephen Harper Eats Babies." 

GO Transit officials promised yesterday to block further insults on its trains. 

But a digital security expert said the proliferation of electronic signs that are programmed with Internet connections 
makes this kind of digital tampering as easy as buying a $23.95 gadget -- and more of it should be expected. 

The note first popped up Thursday on one of two narrow scrolling signs that are installed in each of the rail system's 
395 cars. 

Another sign carried the message on Friday, and then three more had it on Monday -- all along the same route, between 
Hamilton and Toronto.

[snip]

More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060502.gtbabies02/BNStory/Technology/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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