Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” It took three years, but police finally fingered an unsurprising culprit-a Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) engineer named Thomas Haynie. In September 1987 someone interrupted two adult cable channels with a religious message: “Thus sayeth the Lord thy God. In 1977, for example, the alien voice of Vrillon took over a channel in the UK. Past hijackers were caught and sometimes paid the price, others got away with it. In a Chicago Sun-Times article published a day later, the paper reported the joker would have faced “up to $100,000 in fines and a year in jail” if caught. I say “cold case” because yes, hijacking a broadcast signal is a crime.
In no time at all, the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion became a cold case and an object lesson in how to pull off a kind of gleefully weird form of hacking.
He had a woman in a maid’s outfit use a flyswatter on his bare butt. He mocked WGN and broadcaster Chuck Swirsky.
Max scatted the theme to Clutch Cargo, a short-lived (but super-popular) cartoon that ran between 19. The video is both self-evident and perplexing. Big Head Max hijacked the broadcast signal of public TV station WTTW, taking over during a broadcast of Doctor Who. The longer intrusion happened after eleven.
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