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Long ago I read a (4chan I think?) post from someone claiming that it was very possible he knew the people who did this hack. He said he wasn't 100% sure, but
by saganus 7y ago
Long ago I read a (4chan I think?) post from someone claiming that it was very possible he knew the people who did this hack.
He said he wasn't 100% sure, but that there were strong reasons to believe so.
He explained that he used to hang out with 2 brothers, one of which had some mental issues, perhaps autism or something similar, that acted strange at times, and that seemed to have skills with radios and other tech. He also remembers that a girl which is very briefly shown in the hacked video stream looked like the girlfriend of the other brother.
Also recalled that the voices in the stream sounded familiar and I think he even mentions remembering that they had a sheet of metal similar to the one in the video, and that his theory was that the brother with autism was the one with the mask, while the other one rotated the sheet of corrugated metal, while the girlfriend was recording them.
Anyway, I don't remember the exact details and of course I'm not saying the story is true or anything...
But it did have some interesting air of mistery even if it were false. The poster didn't seem like he was trying to lie to anyone, just that he genuinely thought he kew the people responsible for the hack.
And then the story he was telling suddenly portrayed a very cool and odd piece of tech "history", if it were true.
To me, this always sounded a little bit like real-life cyberpunk stuff and every time I remember about Max Headroom I'm reminded of the hack and the story I read by random chance, on a random forum like 4chan, thinking, what if it was real and I was just reading there a post written by someone that knew the Max Headroom hacker...? I wish very hard for that to be real.
Well... I'm rambling here, but I guess that's the magical internet a lot of us feel drawn too?
- 8ig8 7y agoMaybe Reddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eeb6e/i_believe_i_know_who_was_behind_the_max_headroom/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eeb6e/i_believe_i_kno... https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/3oaxi5/new_developments_in_the_max_headroom_incident/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/3oaxi5/n...
- saganus 7y agoAhhh, I guess the story was taken from the reddit posts talked about in the vice article posted below and perhaps spiced up a bit. :(
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