Too funny -- Fox news ticker gets hacked.

[Atman]

This is brilliant. Someone hacked into the Fox News ticker (the giant lighted headlines that continuously stream around the building) and, uh...told the truth. "YOU ARE BEING LIED TO" and "AMERICA IS NOT BROKE," among others, circled the building for quite a while while people grabbed cameras to record the rare moment of actual "fair and balanced" reporting...

Video at link:

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/602525/fox_news_ticker_gets_hacked_in_new_york/


(edited for typo)

[spanone]

1. fookin' brilliant !!!

recommended

[lpbk2713]

2. I knew they were all luddites at Faux.

They have no one to blame but themselves for allowing changes
to the scroll message to be permitted from the outside world.

[PotatoChip]

3. Perfect!!!

Ha!!! :thumbsup: K & R

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Awesome!

[Atman]

5. One more IT guy is looking for another job in NYC!

:rofl:

I'm sure they'll find a way to blame President Obama for this.

.

[malaise]

6. Absolutely fabulous

:rofl: :rofl:

[EFerrari]

7. LOL! Awesome.

[Sheepshank]

8. This was clearly not your everyday hacker

It was someone politically astutue and in the know with regards to Pox News lies. A lovely combination of hightech know how and political savvy. Would love to shake his hand :)

[lpbk2713]

9. My first thought ...

was a disgruntled former employee.

[OwnedByFerrets]

38. Or her.

:evilgrin:

[MilesColtrane]

10. Doesn't look real to me.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Awesome!!

[Cannikin]

12. "We don't think that this is real. Sorry.

We don't think that this is real. Sorry. It's done when so few people will see it? No passersby have any reaction, either right then and there or later? No mention of the "Fox News ticker hack" occurs anywhere on the web until this video was posted" says every site I go to.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. If it isn't fake then that young lady should not have shown her face in the video

clearly an accomplice, if real.

[Cannikin]

14. Fox says it's a hoax

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201122/7221/Was-a-FoxNews-ticker-hacked-with-a-political-message
FoxNews has contacted us, and a spokesperson has confirmed that the video is a hoax. Based on the conversation, it was understood that they have examined the video in detail, leading them to these conclusions.

[onethatcares]

16. good thing faux news doesn't ever lie.

I bet the spokesman was very very clear about that.

[Cannikin]

17. I think *gulp*...I'm really going to say this....I believe them this time.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Feeling A Little Nauseous Now, Aren't You?

Don't blame you.
GAC

[Cannikin]

28. I used a Fleets prep kit and now the feeling is gone.

[butterfly77]

15. Kick,kick,kick &recommended!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Cannikin]

18. How to "hack" a sign with Adobe After Effects

There are a lot of comments saying the video can be done on ones home computer easily

Links to a sample and a tutorial link that seems to be flooded at the moment.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waWwxAi3hBw


If someone can prove it's real, I'll repost it everywhere. Until then, I'd rather not have the joke be on me. I'm going with "fake".

[Bluebear]

19. What, was something finally spelled correctly?

[krispos42]

33. The percentages in a poll summed up to 100.

OBVIOUSLY not Faux News' work!

[Sky Masterson]

20. She has a really awesome butt!

The ticker was cool too :hide:

[crim son]

39. Hah!

I think the video was more about the butt than anything else.

[Sky Masterson]

62. That's all that I saw.

;)

[AsahinaKimi]

21. Are we sure it was hacked?

I have been seeing some posts stating that it was a hoax. I would really, believe me, really love to believe it did happen. I mean, seriously...


*laughingman symbol from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

[Cannikin]

22. No, we arent 0:29 - You can see the white border at the top of the "Cavuto" poster.

@ 0:48 the top of the poster is cut off because they matted in a larger black area for the sign.

[Shagbark Hickory]

24. It looks pretty real to me. Are you saying it isn't?

I brought some frames into photoshop and looked at them pretty closely.
If it's fake, it's a great fake. I'm not following you about the border or the cavuto poster.

[Cannikin]

25. Find the Cavuto poster in the window below the crawl around the 28 second mark......

Notice it has a well defined border at the top, once the "hack" begins, you can no longer see the top of the border because a black area (meant to cover the real crawl display but its too thick) has now obscured it (around the 48 second mark). The upper and lower borders of the crawl also become fuzzy and less defined.

Also, the camera just happens to cut just as the "hacking" begins. A suspicious edit.

Lastly, the only thing that seems out of the ordinary to the passers by is the fact that a group of people are looking at the crawl like something is unusual, but they don't seem to see anything shocking when they look at the crawl.

[Shagbark Hickory]

29. Oh Gawd. Yeah. That's way way fake.

I switched to a better monitor and whoa boy. I'm noticing things I didn't notice before.

Those white flashes were what first got my attention because those signs used to be LEDs. I don't know if they are now but why would an LED have white flashes. But I can totally see that larger black area used to cover up the real sign now.

[Cannikin]

30. The person who posted the video claims he will post another to debunk the naysayers.

I guess we'll wait and see!

A good fake, but still a fake.

[Shagbark Hickory]

31. They's a lot of fake videos relating to signs in NYC. Especially about being able to hack into them.

They got a little sloppy with this one.

[Snoutport]

23. BRAVO!!

[Dawson Leery]

26. k/r

[pacalo]

32. Whoever did that: THANK YOU!

:thumbsup:

[bobburgster]

34. Hacked NPR "Frontline" too.

Though I doubt it was the same people ;-)

[PerpetuallyDazed]

35. Fake!

But they were hoping you wouldn't notice with the extended ass shot in the beginning. It's filmed almost like a bad J.J. Abrams movie.

[Le Taz Hot]

36. Counter-Breitbart move perhaps?

Photoshop -- not just for batshit crazy conservatives. ;-)

[Yon_Yonson]

37. That’s priceless ... slap it to em!

[SidDithers]

40. Looks fake to me...nt

Sid

[Atman]

41. A couple of thoughts and observations...since I posted this.

To the people saying there is a "white line" at the top of the Cavuto poster at 00.29...well, yeah, and there is a white line to the right of it, too, consistent with the lighting. It's called a window frame. It's there pretty much the whole time. Just because you can see it better when they changed camera angles doesn't make it a matte. line.

As for the woman's reaction...she and the camera guy seem to have been sent there knowing that the hacker was going to go live with this. They were there to catch it on film. Her reaction seems perfectly natural to me. If I had just hacked a Fox New banner in Times Square, I'd be kind of giddy, too. I don't see why anyone thinks her excitement is cannot be genuine.

As for the banner itself, while I'm no After Effects or Premiere expert, I do know this stuff pretty well, as it's part of my job. If someone faked that scroll and matched it all up to the movement of the camera and the shifting angles and perspectives, then damn...send us your resume. Some damn fine work. Obviously, with CGI these days anything is possible. But this seems exceptionally well done for YouTube hoax. Except for the supposed white matte line over the Caputo poster (which I don't buy), the scroll matches perfectly, and at every angle.

Finally, why isn't there any news story about this? Well...Fox surely wouldn't run it. And if I were an exec at ABC/NBC/CBS or anyone with a similar marquee in Times Square, would I really want to call attention to this and risk spawning copycats? Think about it. If someone knew Fox was hackable like that, wouldn't the giant NASDAQ marquee be next, or any of the other hundreds of similar signs in Times Square? It would seem like highlighting this episode would be like a dare for the next guy. While I'm not 100% convinced it's real, I'm sure as hell not convinced it's a fake, either.

.

[Cannikin]

60. clarification: white line of the window frame gets covered up by the fuzzy BLACK matte line.

[sufrommich]

42. I think it's fake. Fox is denying it was ever hacked.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/did-fox-news-ticker-get-hacked-to-read-%E2%80%98rightwingers-are-destroying-the-middle-class%E2%80%99/

[Atman]

47. Would you expect them to say anything different?

You suddently believe Fox is telling the truth? I'm surprised they didn't say Obama did it personally.

[lonestarnot]

43. Did they use weenies for periods?

[madmax]

44. I love a good hacker. Modern day Robin Hoods - some of them. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

45. Brillliant! Absolutely brilliant!!!

[iamthebandfanman]

46. why are people recommending this? its fake. stop making us look dumb. n/t

[Atman]

48. Ohhmmmmmmm

Relax. It's not making "us" look dumb. It's just a post, and anyone who reads the threads will also see that there are plenty of detractors. Just chill. It's worth a rec even if it's fake. I think there are enough grown-ups here who are able to make up their own minds.

.

[iamthebandfanman]

55. i wish that were true

but these days people dont read on...

they see something and instead of looking further into they just pass it on.


its the same reason why we have right wingers who think factual news comes in an email from their buddy at work along with crude jokes

[RedCloud]

50. This is pay back for their ACORN BS. Let's level the playing field.

[iamthebandfanman]

54. yeah, being as ignorant as them will really show them whats what eh ? n/t

[Atman]

58. Maybe. After all, they're REALLY ignorant. We're just pretending.

It'd be easy to dupe them.

Just sayin'.

.

[abq e streeter]

49. Fantastic !

[Axle_techie]

51. I didn't look at the evidence, but

I am pretty sure it is fake. The crawl tickers are usually tied into their network, but do not require the computer to be hooked to the internet. They probably have a program that feeds headlines through said computer which posts them to the sign. This would require someone to hack their internal network and then hack the computer in question, which is probably just as secure as every other computer on their network. In other words, why the ticker and not their website? or the editors computer? There are many better ways a good hacker could have made Fox look bad in a much larger way (not that Fox needs the help).

[pootbutta]

52. foxed

that is so fantastic and funny
I LOVE IT

[Atman]

53. That's a good term for it.

Even if it is fake, how is it all that much different from Fox putting a (D) under every Republican criminal's name on the chyron? Fox is reaping what it has sowed.

[SpankMe]

56. Probably faked.

But, people should do these Photoshop-jobs anyway and flood the internet with clever homemade videos and still images of altered signs on right wing institutions.

Fake the Fox news scrolling sign. Fake the signs in front of right wing churches. Fake political billboards erected by right wing nut jobs. Just don't do it for real - do it virtually and post it. Endlessly. Sew doubt. Obfuscate conservative messages. Protest with virtual vandalism. Fight. These fuckers are winning. 2012 will be a real fight, and the Democratic party isn't being forceful at all in opposing the Republican agenda. WE have to do it.

[Atman]

59. I agree. I'm getting pretty tired of losing because we're "polite."

WTF? At some point one has to fight. "Thank you, sir! May I please have another" is no way to win an election.

.

[eleny]

57. LOL!

[harun]

61. Looks faked to me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

63. I think her butt was probably real, though.

:rofl:

[harun]

64. Yes, that was just fine.

[avebury]

65. Awesome!

[The Nexus]

66. If it is fake, which pretty much is IMO

This could be a set up to make progressives look very bad as techno terrorists or something to that nature.

[W_HAMILTON]

67. Whether it's fake or not, it has a good message.

Any time that someone says "America is broke!" point out that we are the richest country in the world.