How did I just learn about the 1987 Max Headroom Chicago broadcast incident today?
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this is one of life’s greatest mysteries
Crazy right. Very much a front runner to the Cipher punks of today. Maybe Max is on NOSTR. I’d like to think that he is.
He did it multiple times!
Could it have been Satoshi?
Lmfao probably not
I think it’s kinda nuts it doesn’t happen more now a days…
TV signals are no longer analog so hacking a digital broadcast is mostly out of reach of anyone but state-sponsored actors. It’s also a more severe crime than it was 40 years ago.
I mean @Peter Todd was only a toddler back then… 😏
Lmfao
It's also not where they target demographic are looking.
I'm still a Todd-ler.
Someone should reboot Max Headroom but with a bitcoin storyline.
21 minutes into the future… 
Never solved 👀
I watched the show because of this lol
And what a fantastic series it was.
Wild one, right? Pure RF hijack, zero malware. My favorite lesson from it is that the physical layer stays the squishiest target. At Masters of The Lair we still threat model antennas.