Comments on: Remember, Remember the 22nd of November https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Thu, 25 May 2023 21:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: JWB https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-74528 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:05:36 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-74528 Revert back?!!? Tautological. What no spell check, Grammarly, etc.?

]]> By: Fab-trendsetter https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-74527 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:22:40 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-74527 Richard Nixon did it.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-73596 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:26:07 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-73596 I am back.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-73595 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:25:44 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-73595 I am back.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-73130 Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:09:40 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-73130 I am returned.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-73129 Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:07:29 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-73129 I am returned.

]]> By: Virgo47tp https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-73128 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:11:58 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-73128 I think this was done on videotape and not a live signal hijack. The blurry line travelling down the screen and the timing between the masked and partially nude portions of the performance suggest a pre-recorded broadcast from within the station.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-72862 Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:17:14 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-72862 Checking back in.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-72640 Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:55:18 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-72640 As always, a second reading years later is highly enjoyable.

I also like the addition of the sudden static, Max, sudden static and then back to the text.

As far as I can remember, that was not present in the original. Was it added in 2016?

]]> By: K80theShade https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november/#comment-71960 Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:24:43 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#comment-71960 Well, first of all if you watch the full-motion video it’s clear that, “Max” is a hand puppet….like a ventriloquists’ doll.
Second, almost ALL “pirate” radio and television broadcasts are executed by professional broadcast media staff or other employees; first because the knowledge required to accomplish a hack like this is NOT in the public domain, and secondly the cost of even a weak rig which would have to be spliced into the low current side of the transmitter signal amplifier (think of an analogue T.V. tower as a strange-looking speaker: all the same equipment [pre-amp, boosters, rectifiers, capacitors, etc.]exists as in your home theater stereo system, just on a larger scale)would be prohibitively expensive for anyone without the requisite industry connections to acquire it relatively cheaply. Still, it’s only RELATIVELY cheap at around ten grand.
That puts it out of reach for the very VAST majority of people.
I’d say check old broadcast equipment auction records, invoices, etc. to see who bought anything which would be required. Cross-check each sale or auction to see if any of the same names keep popping up.
Two days, max….even in the antediluvian world before Google.
I guarantee you the feds found out who did it before the week was out.
This happened on a Sunday, which means whatever hardware was used to help commandeer the feed was probably placed the previous Friday.
Probably the culprit was someone on the inside, and they were likely found quickly.
Then they might have been offered a deal to dodge criminal charges in exchange for detailing EXACTLY how they did it and promising never to do it again. This could have had the ancillary benefit of total confidentiality; a court proceeding would mean a very public trial, where all the details of what happened and how would be revealed far in advance of a “patch” for the exploit.

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