RE: 'Suspicious Packages' That Paralyzed Boston Part of Cartoon Network Marketing Campaign

["Krpata, Tyler" <tkrpata () bjs com>]

Images of the "device"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On
> Behalf Of rms () computerbytesman com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:53 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] 'Suspicious Packages' That Paralyzed Boston Part of
> Cartoon Network Marketing Campaign
>
> Oh brother!  Marketeers are behind the DOS attack in Boston today.
>
> Richard
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249110,00.html
>
> BOSTON -  A suspicious package alert that shut down downtown Boston
> Wednesday afteroon was actually part of an elaborate marketing
campaign by
> the Cartoon Network to spark interest in their "Aqua Teen Hunger
Force"
> show.
>
> After state and local officials said they were launching an
investigation
> into the series of "suspicious packages" found around the city, the
> Cartoon Network released a statement saying the packaged are actually
> magnetic lights that pose no danger.
>
> "They are part of an outdoor marketing campaign in 10 cities in
support of
> Adult Swim's animated television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force," the
> statement said. "They have been in place for two to three weeks in
Boston,
> New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin,
San
> Francisco, and Philadelphia. Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in
> contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations
of
> the billboards. We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose
any
> danger."
>
> Some of the images left on the devices were in the form of characters
> called "Mooninites" from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
>
>
>
>
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