http://motherboard.vice.com/read/someone-hacked-a-billboard-in-atlanta-to-display-goatse
By Jason Koebler
Staff Writer
Motherboard.vice.com
May 15, 2015
Atlanta's affluent Buckhead neighborhood is a great place to shop, eat,
and, last weekend, it was a great place to spot a man bent over stretching
his asshole far beyond what could possibly be healthy.
Hackers took over a video billboard in the neighborhood and replaced it
the most infamous image from Goatse, one of the internet's original shock
sites (Image here, if you must see it). Specific details about how the
hackers hijacked the billboard haven't come out yet, but one security
researcher says that he warned the company that owns and operates the
billboard that many of its signs are vulnerable.
Dan Tentler is a well-respected security researcher who works for Carbon
Dynamics, a security firm. Thursday, he tweeted that he had been in
contact with the company that owns the billboard and was told thanks but
no thanks.
"I wanted to let you guys know that your customers are deploying these
signs and not changing the default passwords, which, if an actual bad guy
found this out, could lead to some unwanted tinkering with the signs,
possibly some defacement," Tentler wrote in an email send in April to the
company.
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