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The 1987 WGN Hack
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:42 pm
What I find to be weirdest about this is how nobody has taken credit for it. It seems like the hackers should have admitted who they were on the day after the 5 year statute of limitations expired. Then again, maybe part of the fun of the hacking was leaving people wondering for years who the hackers were.
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Oh, tigerdroppings has an emoji to fit the thread, which looks exactly like the most infamous part of the hacking.
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Oh, tigerdroppings has an emoji to fit the thread, which looks exactly like the most infamous part of the hacking.
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:45 pm to UFFan
God I loved the 80s.
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:47 pm to UFFan
The PBS hijack during Dr Who was the really weird one. Imagine sitting at home in the dark and that comes on TV.
I hate how stuff like this isn’t possible to pull off anymore.
I hate how stuff like this isn’t possible to pull off anymore.
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:51 pm to UFFan
It had to have been a disgruntled employee.
The personal references to the sports reporter, the know how to pull it off and the equipment needed all point to an inside job. No one ever caught a charge though.
The personal references to the sports reporter, the know how to pull it off and the equipment needed all point to an inside job. No one ever caught a charge though.
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:58 pm to UFFan
It's like the kid who doo dooed in another kid's dufflebag during my high school gym class.
Sometimes it's possible to pull off something so awesome that you can't even take credit for it.
Sometimes it's possible to pull off something so awesome that you can't even take credit for it.
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:58 pm to Clyde Tipton
Some people theorize it really wasn't a hard hacking job, and it really might have just been some 20 year olds who were slightly more tech savvy than an average person. In fact, it's sometimes further theorized that this is precisely why the investigation was so opaque, because if the investigators were transparent than they'd have basically been telling everybody about how they could hack their local TV station with just $70 of equipment that you could buy at your local Sears.
Posted on 4/17/26 at 4:00 pm to UFFan
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Sears
Sears? The frick?
All true 80's hackers got their shite from Radio Shack!
Posted on 4/17/26 at 4:03 pm to UFFan
Chuck Swirsky is a freakin liberal!
Posted on 4/17/26 at 4:14 pm to Horsemeat
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This post was edited on 4/17/26 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 4/17/26 at 4:29 pm to UFFan
I remember, years ago, reading an article about it. There was speculation it was done by two brothers. The one in the Max Headroom mask was super ADHD and autistic, which is why his rants can't stay on track.
Posted on 4/17/26 at 5:04 pm to The Boat
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I hate how stuff like this isn’t possible to pull off anymore.
Back then WGN was probably using a Microwave or Upper UHF TV low power relay to their transmitter in either the John Hancock or Sears Tower.
They just had to over power the station’s signal or hit it at the right power level.
This is before fiber links were readily available to send links to transmitters.
One of the new things with the newer DTV standards is encryption or the two signals would phase each other out and leave nothing for the decoder to decode.
It happens a few times on the gulf coast when a station will come in from hundreds of miles away with the right weather conditions to overpower a local station. With analog, you would get static or ghosting. But with digital, the decoder doesn’t know what to lock onto and displays nothing or a pixilated mess.
This post was edited on 4/17/26 at 6:47 pm
Posted on 4/17/26 at 6:35 pm to AtticusOSullivan
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God I loved the 80s.
This cannot be upvoted enough.
Posted on 4/17/26 at 7:40 pm to TygerLyfe
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