Hacker hits Toronto transit message system

Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:21 pm

MAY 05, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Imagine Gerry Nicholls’ surprise when he glanced at the electronic advertising sign on the Toronto-area commuter train he was riding last week and saw this message about the Canadian prime minister scroll across the screen: “Stephen Harper eats babies.”
Said Nicholls, “I worked with Harper for five years, and I know he has a craving for junk food, but I’ve never seen him eat a baby.” He then explained his role in publicizing a hack of the transit system’s message system.

“It was Thursday evening, April 27, about 5:30, and I was leaving Toronto and I was taking the GO Transit train,” said Nicholls, vice president of the National Citizens Coalition. “Each car has a little electronic advertising sign, and messages scroll across them, and usually it’s something like, 'Buy tickets to this event' or messages about train safety. But this time the message on the sign was reading ‘Stephen Harper eats babies,’ every three seconds. Stephen Harper used to be my boss, and he’s president of the organization I work for right now.”

Nicholls, who lives in a suburb of Toronto, thought the message on the sign was strange and figured it had to be some kind of parody, with some kind of kicker explaining what it meant. But there was no punchline, he said.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:13 pm

haha, i wanna try that

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Sat May 06, 2006 12:15 am

Oh wow. I wonder how they did that. I'll hafta "read more"
I'm gonna post this over at my forum as well so my Canadian users can read it.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat May 06, 2006 1:19 am

Haha funny. I seen a pic of a hacked construction sign saying "1337 H4XoR R00L". funny stuff

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:25 am

haha

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:13 pm

So did they catch they person?

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scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:41 pm

ycontrol wrote: So did they catch they person?

not if they were s-m-r-t, I mean s-m-a-r-t

1337
Hacker "Sp33k" for leet, or elite. Originating from 31337 "eleet", the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult, a hacker group, to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice, a notorious hacking program.

1337 h4x0rz pwn j00!

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robonightmare · Post by **robonightmare** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:45 am

Hmmm....
if i could find out how to do that, things would get...shall we say...
'interesting'

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:35 am

Uus Corp

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