[HN Gopher] Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows... ___________________________________________________________________ Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows porn film on a screen Author : campuscodi Score : 51 points Date : 2023-08-21 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.iraqinews.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.iraqinews.com) | NotYourLawyer wrote: | [flagged] | alrs wrote: | I think you're pretty bent if you're hoping that children were | exposed to public porn of any sort. | skyyler wrote: | >The Iraqi government, which is dominated by pro-Iranian | parties, has targeted several YouTubers and TikTokers since | last year, accusing them of sharing "indecent content" that | goes "against morals and traditions". | | >Some of them have been imprisoned, including a young woman | who posted videos dancing to pop music. | | This was a protest. Protests are supposed to be | uncomfortable. | za3faran wrote: | Easy for you to say when you're sitting behind your screen | most likely in a Western country. The people of Iraq have | suffered for decades at the hands of occupation, constant | bombardment, instability, poverty, sanctions, and more. | Give them a break. Some of the comments here, like the GP | post are quite sickening. | serf wrote: | not to encourage a race to the bottom, but 'being exposed to | pornography' is pretty low on the list of risks to youth as | far as Iraq is concerned. [0,1,2,3] | | [0]: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/iraq/publication/ec | d201... [1]: https://www.humanium.org/en/iraq/ [2]: | https://www.unicef.org/stories/displaced-children-iraq- | tell-... [3]: | https://iraq.un.org/en/235063-more-9000-children-have- | been-k... | alrs wrote: | No disagreement from me. | Aeolun wrote: | Pretty sure that children of any sort deal with it better | than people that hate porn for an ideological reason. | meepmorp wrote: | > you're hoping that children | | Why bring the children in to this? | FreshStart wrote: | Murdeeing people okay for all ages. Making people is the | devils. A sign of a sound mind with decent morals. | serf wrote: | given that a suspect was arrested I guess I hope it was mild | enough that the suspect, guilty or not, isn't permanently | removed from society in one way or another. | s5300 wrote: | The Las Vegas Sphere was powered down during the recent DEFCON | conference. | | Nothing was officially stated, but it was rumored they didn't | want to risk anything like this happening. | birdyrooster wrote: | I was there and watched it display scenes before during and | after DEFCON. One of my extended online friendlies started a | goof post on Reddit with a $300 reward. There were so many | people who claimed they could hack it or would hack it this | year and.. no one did. | avery17 wrote: | Knowing casinos, it's pretty likely that they actually have | good security. | WrtCdEvrydy wrote: | You can't hack a dumb power switch (or what I assume is a | giant breaker) | s5300 wrote: | [dead] | tpmx wrote: | Has anyone modelled that obvious... content onto that | hemispherical LED display? | jprd wrote: | Yep! | | https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/wp- | content/uploads/2023/07... | tpmx wrote: | You read my mind! | | I feel like they could have done a better job at faking a | depth map though. | nullc wrote: | eye see what you did there. | [deleted] | DeTheBug wrote: | Iraqi here *facepalm* again it's not a spooky cyber attack, it's | the stupid way they operate these screens, they use anydesk and | teamviewer to control them, they're hooked to windows machines | and often times they show the desktop and user/password is | displayed on the big screen | | Here is a real life pic by a friend https://imgur.com/a/g0LB9vt | serf wrote: | it's done exactly the same way in the States. lots of similar | photos to show for it. I guess that whole industry just doesn't | care. | croo wrote: | I wonder how many times do these animated advertisement screens | near roads or highways needs to be hacked in a similar way in | order to make them disappear. Can they be problematic frequently | enough to make the companies just get rid of them? | | Wish it was as easy as installing an adblocker. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-08-21 23:00 UTC)