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Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows porn film on a screen
- s5300 3y agoThe Las Vegas Sphere was powered down during the recent DEFCON conference. Nothing was officially stated, but it was rumored they didn’t want to risk anything like this happening.
- tpmx 3y agoHas anyone modelled the most obvious content onto that largest hemispherical LED display in the world?
- jprd 3y agoYep! https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/sphere_eye_1-924x615.jpg https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/wp-content/uploads/2023/07...
- birdyrooster 3y agoI was there and watched it display scenes before during and after DEFCON. One of my extended online friendlies started a goof post on Reddit with a $300 reward. There were so many people who claimed they could hack it or would hack it this year and.. no one did.
- avery17 3y agoKnowing casinos, it's pretty likely that they actually have good security.
- WrtCdEvrydy 3y agoYou can't hack a dumb power switch (or what I assume is a giant breaker)
- hyperhopper 3y agoYes you can. It's called turning it back on. Getting there is the challenge, but it's not as if defcon is only about digital security
- LordShredda 3y agoMy grandfather owns an RSA decryption tool. He calls it a wrench
- lb1lf 3y agoPedantically speaking, that's more of a key extraction tool than a decryption tool as such. Most efficient, though.
- s5300 3y ago[dead]
- croo 3y agoI wonder how many times do these animated advertisement screens near roads or highways needs to be hacked in a similar way in order to make them disappear. Can they be problematic frequently enough to make the companies just get rid of them? Wish it was as easy as installing an adblocker.
- throitallaway 3y agoIf I hacked into one I'd turn down the brightness at night. Some of them are brighter than the sun.
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- alrs 3y agoI think you're pretty bent if you're hoping that children were exposed to public porn of any sort.
- skyyler 3y ago>The Iraqi government, which is dominated by pro-Iranian parties, has targeted several YouTubers and TikTokers since last year, accusing them of sharing “indecent content” that goes “against morals and traditions”. >Some of them have been imprisoned, including a young woman who posted videos dancing to pop music. This was a protest. Protests are supposed to be uncomfortable.
- za3faran 3y agoEasy for you to say when you're sitting behind your screen most likely in a Western country. The people of Iraq have suffered for decades at the hands of occupation, constant bombardment, instability, poverty, sanctions, and more. Give them a break. Some of the comments here, like the GP post are quite sickening.
- serf 3y agonot to encourage a race to the bottom, but 'being exposed to pornography' is pretty low on the list of risks to youth as far as Iraq is concerned. [0,1,2,3] [0]: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/iraq/publication/ecd2015 https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/iraq/publication/ecd201... [1]: https://www.humanium.org/en/iraq/ https://www.humanium.org/en/iraq/ [2]: https://www.unicef.org/stories/displaced-children-iraq-tell-their-stories https://www.unicef.org/stories/displaced-children-iraq-tell-... [3]: https://iraq.un.org/en/235063-more-9000-children-have-been-killed-or-maimed-iraq-2008 https://iraq.un.org/en/235063-more-9000-children-have-been-k...
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- DeTheBug 3y agoIraqi here *facepalm* again it's not a spooky cyber attack, it's the stupid way they operate these screens, they use anydesk and teamviewer to control them, they're hooked to windows machines and often times they show the desktop and user/password is displayed on the big screen Here is a real life pic by a friend https://imgur.com/a/g0LB9vt https://imgur.com/a/g0LB9vt
- serf 3y agoit's done exactly the same way in the States. lots of similar photos to show for it. I guess that whole industry just doesn't care.
- btach 3y agoThanks! That made me literally laugh out loud.
- _boffin_ 3y agoThanks for the laugh.
- Yabood 3y agoI was raised in Baghdad, I can assure you the person who set this up knows better, but didn’t care enough or didn’t think other people would know what teamviewer is or both.
- WhereIsTheTruth 3y agoSo looks like they got breached, wich might explain the Telegram drama, I was wondering why would they choose to specifically ban Telegram but not Signal or Whatsapp, tools of the mossad I need to dig
- poopbutt7 3y ago[dead]
- aaron695 3y agoA tale as old as time - "Police arrested the suspect and said he was a maintenance worker for a firm that maintains billboards in the city. According to the police, the employee had a financial dispute with the company and, in order to take revenge, showed porn on the screen instead of advertising." http://kvira.ge/859826 http://kvira.ge/859826 (NSFW maybe?)
- dismalpedigree 3y agoIf only this was all it would take in the USA to shut down all LED billboards.
- hilbert42 3y agoHa! I suppose it had to happen eventually. I wonder how long it'll be before this meme spreads and the big boys in street advertising like JCDecaux become targets for hacking.
- nxobject 3y agoTalk about rapid incident response: they cut the power cable! (If it's a careful translation, presumably in contrast to just cutting the power.) It's interesting how priorities dictate whether or not physical damage is an acceptable way to fix a problem. The hacker “showed a pornographic film for several minutes before we cut the power cable,” he said.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoIf only this was just a convenient way to remove a billboard instead of a small part of Iraq's incredibly unhealthy sex culture.
- esafak 3y agoWhat is wrong with their sex culture?
- thomastjeffery 3y agoThis is a part of the world where, in the worst cases, female children have their genitals mutilated in the name of religious tradition; and in the average case, adult women worry that if they don't bleed (from a ruptured hymen) during the first intercourse with their husband (who they probably didn't choose to marry), they will be accused of adultery and murdered (for which the murderer can legally be given a reduced sentence). Just take a look here under "Women’s Rights, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Morality Laws": https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/iraq https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/iraq
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