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My buddy watched this live when he was a kid. He now dresses up like a rabbit and sings rock and roll songs. Coincidence? Check out Nobunny, it's fuckin' tight!
I honestly imagine one day someone will go through their deceased father's stuff and discover a box with a Mask Headroom mask and a VCR cassette and get it transferred to DVD and be like "Dad?"
I hope it will happens and we will be finally be able to know who did this and see the full version of this tape, since im sure the tape was longer than what it was shown on tv
Right? I've seen it in thumbnails for like "top 50 weird videos" and that kind of stuff but I wasn't expecting it here. Her voice sounds like a South Park character though, so that takes some the freakiness a little.
that character doesn’t scare me, it’s the thumbnail for a Top15s scariest video compilation, and in that compilation is a video called “obey the walrus” which terrifies me. so everytime i see that character i think of obey the walrus and get freaked out.
the fight at canary wharf except the cyberman send max headroom to be their spokesperson daleks: "identify yourself" max: "shut up you fucking nerd hahahahaha" daleks: "exterminate" max: *gets his ass smacked with a fly swatter*
This guy is a role model to me. He commits a crime that could get him several years in prison and give him a massive fine, and all he does is troll around. Absolute madlad.
If I recall correctly, the Max Headroom show was about a dystopian world where a reporter makes powerful enemies and gets sucked into a TV which turns him into a vengeful talking head who helps the heroes resist corporate control of the media. So there could have been some satire or protest angle to all of this. I also am a fan of the SNES Shadowrun soundtrack btw.
@@michaelcowanmichaelcowan969 No it didn’t. The Coca-Cola advertising was in 1988. Max Headroom started in early 1987 as a British television film, “Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.” Later that year came the series, and then after that, Coca-Cola entered the picture.
@@deepspire incorrect. The New Coke commercials featuring Max Headroom came out in 1985, the US series came out in 87. Any argument otherwise is moot, as my reply is still correct and if max did exist prior to his appearance in US commercials and his US show it would be highly unlikely to have been seen in the US, and therefore not an influence on the hack.
By some twist of fate I saw both and it was freakishly awesome, with the knowledge that I was witnessing broadcasting history. Just add it to all the other nefarious stuff that happens in Chicago.
If I was alive and saw this whwm it happened, i'd be stoked. I was born in 1992 so I mossed the Max Headroom craze. Which sucks because the concept itself was so interesting to me. They showed cameras that transmit their signal standalone. And a few other things we actually have tpday.
You nailed it. A lot of people really do not understand the hacking culture of this time and often misunderstand why it was ever done. Hackers especially back then, were sometimes known as misfits and had strange sence of humor due to their nature of trying to push the limits of what they can pull off.
@@jsc315 In the 60s, an 18 year old in Russia suddenly hijacked a radio broadcast and gave an emergency warning that the United States had fired nuclear warheads destined for Russia. This was all for a prank. You can only imagine what happened after that.
I think a question just as important of who did it is WHERE it was done, You'd need to be in direct sight of the Sears tower in order to transmit, but you'd also need to be within a mile or two, and with so many buildings surrounding the area, there can only be so many places.
Knowing where exactly would help figuring out who, too, as it'd have to be a spot they'd have enough access to to bring the equipment without arousing suspicion.
Bideo, both have stations on the north side. They transmit their signal to a tall building downtown. The signal was hijacked between those two locations.
Michael Bloomberg he literally talks like he’s from 2017. Talking about liberals, low key referencing Kanye’s West album the life of Pablo (“your love is fading, catch the wave”),also dropping hints on the OJ case talking about how his brother has the other glove with blood on it... some spooky shit lol.
my parents remember this, they were in there late teens/ early 20's and they told me everyone was freaking out about this. We still live in Chicago to this day.
The Max headroom incident was and still is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen. I will honestly say that for what ever reason it made me feel unsafe or vulnerable. I feel like someone is there trying to and successfully touching me... right before the world ends.
Yah she said she was actually scared because of the noises in the background and the face of the man We live in Texas and she didn’t see the doctor who one she saw the news one cause it aired all over the world cause it’s the news but yes she said she doesn’t remember a lot but she does remember what she said and what he looked like and she told my to ask my grandma about it so I called her and she said she does remember it and she said she remembers his face but not a lot
Nickelodeon Stuff honestly don’t judge a book by its cover...and I’m sorry I’m not good with time and age and math and stuff because she didn’t say an exact age but she just said she was around my age that’s why I put 13...and I’m not lying as it’s news I live in Texas it aired everywhere...and I’m not 8 I’m 13. Also there are people in there 20’s that play roblox and anyways this is kinda trash and stupid how you have to be toxic like that :/ and if anything you’re the 8 year old because Nickelodeon is a kids show for young children I would say my mom lied but she remembers a lot of it and I didn’t even have to tell her anything Sorry to tell you this but get your facts straight😐
@@accountaccount8707 You're only getting defensive because you know I'm right, and hey, guess what! I play Roblox as well! Still, no need to lie about your parents seeing this.
Whoever did it, will be approaching 60 years old, or possibly older. As an ex broadcast engineer I agree with the sentiment that this was an inside job. Link frequencies to TX's isn't exactly public knowledge.
You're a hell of a story teller.. You tell me stories I didn't ask for and not only do you get my attention, you draw me in get me invested in your internet mysteries. Most videos I watch on UA-cam were background noise.. The way you present these I find my self actively listening
I was wondering why nobody else thought this, because when I was a kid he did scare me a little. Glad you said it. I think I was around 6 at the time, but remember him very clearly.
Could it not have been that the two brothers made the video and someone within pulled off the hack and used their video? There could be multiple parties involved in something like this. I love this story because I was watching Doctor Who that night as a wee lad growing up in suburban Chicago. It kind of scarred me for life lol
exactly what i was thinking! its totally plausible to me that J and K could have worked with someone on the inside to pull this off. just because the culprit(s) would have had to have inside knowledge doesnt automatically mean J and K are completely ruled out. this is, of course, assuming the original reddit post is even true, since anyone can go on reddit and post whatever bullshit they want for internet points.
@@kitteneyejo also the fact that they admit they didn’t put it all together at the time leads me to believe that this person isn’t necessarily perceptive enough to consider this.
After all these years of living with the guilt, it was me. I did it. Despite the fact that I wasn't born yet, and that my mother was a child in a different country, this is just as credible as the Reddit posts. Now give me upvotes.
Its funny to think how this guy could still be alive and be an old man laughing about all this now. I think it was an engineer's teenage son who just wanted to mess around with his friends and by pure luck and accident was able to pull it off. Knowing what trouble they got themselves into all involved swore to take it to the grave.
The fact that this happened in 1987 makes it even cooler by far. Because it would take a hell lot of power and experience to do something like this at the time.
Actually, it would be a lot easier (technically speaking) than now. Transmissions weren't encrypted typically. Organizations security were lax because the knowledge and equipment typically were not in the hands of the public. No need to lock doors in a town were nobody is a thief sort of thing.
yeah i only just realized that a scene from pulp fiction, has clutch cargo. when butch as a child is talking to christopher walken, he was watching clutch cargo.
Good video. A few things: 1) No one is at large. Statute of limitations has long expired. 2) The idea that it came from the Chicago BBS community is a good one. 3) LOTS of Chicago BBS’ers claimed credit in the first 24 hours, until they all realized this was a serious crime. 4) It was certainly an associate of Dr. Ripco. A message board at the time had a technical question related to the intrusion. 5) The number of locations this could be done from are very limited, but densely populated. 6) Small point: It’s pronounced luh-GRAYNGE :) But a good video.
I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid as it was happening. Good times. Asking my parents why Max was being spanked with a fly swatter was the highlight of the night.
God this used to creep me out. But watching this made me realize this was just most likely a troll with no malicious intent. Just a harmless prank. Still i get unnerved at times
Ssj Chixken not just a troll, if only you knew the intelligence and autism required to pull this off, bare in mind in the 80's, you needed alot more tech than people easily let on. You needed highly specialized knowledge In UHF broadcasting, masking etc etc. Give this guy the credit he deserves.
There is a theory that the guy behind the mask had severe autism, that's why everything he says doesn't make sense, goes back and forth etc. He mentions his brother and the two of them were said to be big broadcast hackers of the 80s
I think the Reddit story could be true. It seemed the original posters just suddenly dropped it and said never mind. It is possible the authorities got involved which could have scared him, and the people involved may have got in touch with him and told him to shut up lol. I don't think we will ever know.
I thought that too, but at the same time, I know nothing of TV broadcasting equipment and what technology/knowledge someone would need to have to pull this off. That said, I don't think the possibility of a group of really dedicated hackers somehow getting their hands on it is completely implausible.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES What makes you so sure of that. You seem to be dropping little bread crumbs here and there, whether or not they're relevant, who's to say...
Hey man, good video. But I just wanted to say that the Reddit story seems fake. He claims someone told him to "watch Channel 11 that night." So he did, and he saw the incident live. Allegedly. The problem with that is, the attack was aimed for Channel 9 (WGN-TV). That's why "Max" picks on Chuck Swirsky, and "World's Greatest Newspaper" (WGN). That's where the attack first happened, but WGN engineers quickly changed frequencies and stopped it, they didn't even manage to make the sound work. So after that failed attempt, they went for Channel 11, where they got much more airtime, with sound and everything, and they could play the whole skit (which was still talking about Channel 9, even though it was on Channel 11). That's the one on YT which we all know and love. Had the redditor met the guys who did it beforehand, surely they would have told him to watch Channel 9, not 11, as that was the aim of the prank. That is just one of the holes in his story, which seems like the typical Reddit lying for attention. It literally feels like he picked apart every detail of the video and built a story around it. Max says "my brother has the other one." He knew two brothers. The tape ends with someone spanking him? He had a dirty sense of humor. Max says "ooooh" all the time? One of the brothers also said "oooh" all the time. Just smells like a load of shit to me.
i wonder where is that mask? and who has it? what happened to it? someone has it..in a dusty old box in a basement somewhere.. or it was thrown in the trash never to be seen ever again..
What makes this even better is the fact legally nothing can be done to everyone involved because of how long it's been and none of them had revealed being involved with it making it one of the greatest troll moves of all time
Guy in the mask: “uuuu u uu uuuuuuu uuu uuuuu uu uuuu u u” “The Chuck Swerski that he’s talking about...” Oh, he was talking? Uh, sure, if you say so........
Just for clarification according to wikipedia at 2:52 - He only was caught because someone over heard him ranting about the price hikes over a payphone. " MacDougall surrendered to the authorities, after which he was served with a court subpoena due to a tourist having overheard him discussing the incident on a pay phone off Interstate 75"
Just want to pop in and point out that 'Horror of Fang Rock' is a CLASSIC episode, really brilliant stuff. Leela was such a great companion. Basically one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in broadcasting is what jackass interrupted a really good Doctor Who episode.
Quinton Reviews Oi whaddup Quinton, I was literally just watching your New York video. Being from Queens, it was weird to see you go to places I go to every year on school trips.
I swear my uncle would and could have been that guy. He had knowledge and owned all this strange hacking technology of the 80's and was a super smart but odd guy. He totally would have pulled a prank like this. And he lived in Chicago his whole life.
Does he know anyone mentioned in the Reddit story about the max headroom incident? Ask him, if it’s not him then if he was in the hacking group of the 80s chances that he probably knows them
as of 1992 the Headroom Hacker of 1987 would be safe by law "In the absence of a specific statute of limitations, the default federal limitations period of five years applies." in the United States the first cyberpunk series Max Headroom broke into the broadcasts to mock the mind-controlling media & ended 1988
The narrative that it was an inside hatchet job is bunk. I'm a broadcast engineer. Any ham radio hack could have pulled this off with an antenna in the correct length for the frequency matched to a transmitter. And amplified with a linear.
I had a life-size Max Headroom cardboard thing back in '87/'88 (I was 24/5 I think). It was a display in a supermarket and I just picked it up and walked out with it. Middle of the day, full of shoppers. No-one looked sideways at me. We kept him near the front door to freak our friends out. Only works the first time though.
1980s shitposters were on that LSD shit. But seriously, though, this was fascinating. It's an amazing look into technology's past and the things we have forgotten. To think, there was actually a time when hackers would not reasonably be able to pull something like this off without insider access. Now-a-days, they're breaking into Equifax like a kid with a dispensable capsule toy.
1980s were big on coke, not LSD. LSD didn't get popular again until the mid-90s. Not saying coke couldn't give you some real interesting ideas, just saying it wouldn't have been LSD these "shitposters" were on.
The equipment *_did_* exist in the wild! Ham radio operators were regularly transmitting analog television even in the 80's. Finding the studio to transmitter link frequencies could have been as easy as looking it up in a book from Radio Shack used with police scanners. Alternatively a scanner or UHF ham radio could find the point to point link. These links are not scrambled and can be overridden by a fairly weak signal if it's close enough to the receiver or using a directional antenna, a small thing at those frequencies.
This. It's not impossible to build equipment from scratch either anyway, and it's easier to override a signal than one would think.The FCC regulates things, if you just wanted to do a short illegal broadcast, there is nothing stopping you from cranking up the power since you're breaking the law anyway. TV stations are limited in the power that they're allowed to put out.
Ove course they didn't have to override the high powered main transmitter, only the link between the studio and the transmitter. That link is usually between 5 and 100 watts depending on the distance. A 1 watt amateur TV transmitter could easily do it just by being within a couple of blocks of the transmitter tower. Since both WTTW and WGN use the Willis Tower the pirate didn't even have to move between the two incidents.
There's another conspiracy theory around all of this. The FCC absolutely knew how the hack was done and where it came from. The reason they claimed NOT to know was very simple: the airwaves in those days were shockingly insecure and they didn't want to encourage copycats or enable serious crime by stating how it was done and what equipment was used. This was just a harmless silly prank which made a very important statement. Think of the real and serious damage that could be done otherwise.
@@clarissamcpigeon7857 It was still insecure in the days of analog cable. Comcast in Philadelphia used a normal outdoor TV antenna to recieve the signal from an Allentown station 60 miles away. When the station went off the air on weekend nights another channel 39 from Long Island, New York over 100 miles away would show up on cable channel 39 but only when the weather was right. That ment it was probably relaying anything strong enough on that channel. It would have been easy for someone to transmit a signal on TV channel 39 that was stronger than the distant signals from either Long Island or Allentown with just a TV extender from Radio Shack, a VCR and a small outdoor antenna. If they had made it portable and transmitted from a car they may even avoided the FCC doppler direction finding vans.
I still think J and K did it. “Just watch channel 11 tonight.” How the hell could someone predict something like that? They probably knew someone who had access to whatever “inside” technology they needed and also had a vendetta against Chuck Swirsky and “the world’s greatest newspaper nerds,” and that combined with J and K’s technological knowledge makes it absolutely possible that they did it.
Two Things in no particular order: (1) Captain Midnight, soon after capture, was identified as a satellite tv store owner and not an engineer.. He could’ve been both, of course. (2) There is a theory that an insider did not transmit anything but instead placed a strip of video tape over a spool of recorded tape set to be used later. Seems highly unlikely bc someone would have noticed bulge in tape or someone would have noticed him taking spool out of office or unwinding/rewinding it. Even if he copied the original tape and recorded over a small section, someone would have noticed when or how he did it.
So first off I’m sorry for the lack of structure and messiness that is my writing. Also if you have any sorta thoughts on this or evidence to disprove it I’d be glad to hear it, and all that. I know this is many years too late but I have a very solid plausible theory. While J and K didn’t do the hack themselves they made the video. Between speech patterns and jokes, as well as the skipping around and voice distortion (back then it would be quite easy to do the voice effects with the AV equipment they had at the time) I believe that J and K made the video as a fact. They also were big in the phreak scene of the local area and mentioning channel 11 means they knew about it before it happened, something like that wouldn’t be posted on a board because if it was, FCC and internet detectives would have found it by now, also more people would have seen it and watched channel 11 at that time, and I don’t believe they would ruin their surprise early also warning it would draw attention and I believe FCC would have already searched that angle. This means J and K didn’t do the hack. So we have the technician who I will call T from here on out. T was an audio tech who knew J and K either through the boards or as a personal friend. This would most likely be as a personal relationship to J and K that allowed both parties to know and access the skills and knowledge of the other. J and K would probably have done this for fun as well as being like a phreak’s wet dream to fuck with tv. The chances of another person, much less a technician for the broadcasting channels having the same speech patterns as J is very much impossible or close to it. Also I imagine the FCC would have picked up on it if they had exhausted the whole lead of technicians. It would be quite easy to pick up such a unique speech pattern and mannerism of the one the person on video had. So I rule out it being a single tech with a vendetta that did both the video and the hack. I believe the hack was already planned and ready to go at least a week or two in advance, the video was edited and sent to the tech probably hand delivered by J and/or K. I believe that the first channel hack without audio was to make sure they could do it smoothly in a control environment or just to test that it was possible and went smoothly as to test the waters and get a little practice, even teasing the night to come. The tech then put it on channel 11 the couple hours later that it would most likely take to directly go and do everything before booking it. J and K didn’t know a specific time but they knew it would be later that night and probably knew it would be during the doctor who episode. Now we have it after the hack where all three lay low and nobody snitched or claimed it. Thus I believe it was both an outside and inside job, having a guy inside who planned and executed the physical parts and mainly the illegal parts of the plan, and J&K being the ones to make the video. This of course is pure speculation with inferences on a secondary source and for the most part shouldn’t be taken as anything more than my personal belief. Though this is the first thing that sprung to my head, and I feel like it fits both the previous story and the revelation of being an inside job. TL;DR: J&K made the video, but a disgruntled tech did the hack.
When you want to show people your funni parody sketch but you have no way to do it, so you hijack two TV stations and somehow remain completely anonymous for years afterward.
The 80's was the heyday for hackers because few things had sufficient security yet, I mean you would never think to make the mouthpiece of a payphone tamper-proof because the last thing you would imagine is someone figuring out they can use a coin to manipulate the dial tone for free calls. Anything electronic became a challenge to find out what free stuff you could make it do.
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I DON'T KNOW DUDDDDDDDDDDE THAT MY CHILDHOOD AND TWEEN YEARS
My buddy watched this live when he was a kid. He now dresses up like a rabbit and sings rock and roll songs. Coincidence? Check out Nobunny, it's fuckin' tight!
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cool channel; great job
It wasn't a hack it was a leak... wait, what were we talking about? :-)
me: enables subtitles because I can't understand what max is saying
subtitles: "[AUDIO FROM THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT]"
thank you subtitles, very cool
deaf people : :o
I thought the same thing lol
Still unable to understand what he's speaking lmao
fschutt there is a video up with subtitles but not sure if they’re official
@@TheLadySquid yeah it's the official words, the guy who made the maxheadroom incident video uploaded the subtitles himself..
I bet the hacker is reading the comments on these videos and just laughing. He truly is one of the greatest pranksters of all time.
Thanks.
what
Probably dead already
I reckon he’s probably around middle age by now. Seems like he was a young adult or something at the time, considering the type of humour involved...
Or He's Just Autistic Or Something?
Genius doing it during Dr who. Most people probably thought it was part of the plot
Until the fly swatter came out.
My mom: "This show has been going downhill since series 10 .....no wait!!!"
@@coltino99 Idk Doctor Who can get pretty wild
There have been actual episodes that got weirder than the interruption,
Not likely, the Max Headroom video had higher production value and better writing
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Whang: "The Chuck Swirsky he's talking about..."
Exactly what I thought lmao
He says something about a “fucking nerd” and giggles
He Said Chuck Swarskys a fucking nerd
@@gryotharian I heard that too
He said "I think I'm better than chuck swirsky"
imagine being high as a kite, flippin through channels on that fateful night in 1987, and then suddenly this comes on. that'll change your life.
Yep. Was there too.
You were there with my cousin? Lol that's exactly what he was doing when he caught this.
Thanks for that laugh . . . I really needed it
@Razor Ramone form a mental image
i think getting high and watching tv is what most americans did back then, so it's a high chance they caught this
Nobody cared who he was... Until he put on the mask.
Getting caught wasn't part of his plan
He's the hero that town needs but doesnt deserve.
Guys,The dirlo! Go get it
Here comes the thot patrol that sounded like a Batman quote or something
J O J O R E F E R E N C E
I used to watch Dr Who on 11 wttw in the 80’s and 90’s. I remember that happening. I was there for that and that’s my life’s greatest accomplishment.
i can only wonder how terrified you were
Lucky being old enough to have seen old dr who
I dont want to like to ruin the 69
@@HarunX57zt It's ruined, now go make it a 420!
@@erikho6936 of course
I honestly imagine one day someone will go through their deceased father's stuff and discover a box with a Mask Headroom mask and a VCR cassette and get it transferred to DVD and be like "Dad?"
😂😂
I hope it will happens and we will be finally be able to know who did this and see the full version of this tape, since im sure the tape was longer than what it was shown on tv
🤣🤣🤣
@@X-RAGE Wonder how much that mask would fetch.
That guy was smart, so would have been tossed away long ago it's evidence against him.
Nope. You'll never know them and never find out who they were; all you have is conjecture from redditards of all things. God Millennials are stupid.
I was NOT prepared for how creepy the musician dudes other video character was.
Right? I've seen it in thumbnails for like "top 50 weird videos" and that kind of stuff but I wasn't expecting it here. Her voice sounds like a South Park character though, so that takes some the freakiness a little.
The other character extremely bothers me and I have to look away
OPJuiceBox me too, It really scares me and I just close my eyes
I hate seeing it so much I really don't deal well with creepy things anymore, wish the picture wasn't cut to so much
that character doesn’t scare me, it’s the thumbnail for a Top15s scariest video compilation, and in that compilation is a video called “obey the walrus” which terrifies me. so everytime i see that character i think of obey the walrus and get freaked out.
I’m glad we don’t know who did this. It was a funny prank and the mystery is what makes it so legendary.
Agreed
@Chris Dingler but then nobody would believe them
Maybe It Was My Fucking Dad
Maybe It Was My Fucking Mom
MAYBE IT WAS MY FUCKING TEACHER
Nobody should ever know but the people who did this. How many legendary events do you get to witness in your lifetime?
Despite it being so long ago there are people who would likely still try to prosecute him for it.
It's even worse that he sounds like a modern Cyberman, Doctor Who thing, it's so fucking creepy.
the fight at canary wharf except the cyberman send max headroom to be their spokesperson
daleks: "identify yourself"
max: "shut up you fucking nerd hahahahaha"
daleks: "exterminate"
max: *gets his ass smacked with a fly swatter*
honestly starting to wonder if doctor who based their modern cybermen voices off of this incident...? just a theory lol
Dr. Who sucks
"A frickin nerd"
nah it’s actually pretty good
“Who was behind the Max Headroom incident??”
*gets spanked on live television*
@Blindi it looked like a young kid
Which makes this way more scary
Who was behind max headroom *Spank spank*
That was so disturbing.
dummy thicc
@babatunde fc Everyone has the ability to spank
This guy is a role model to me. He commits a crime that could get him several years in prison and give him a massive fine, and all he does is troll around. Absolute madlad.
Here you are see I told yoh
I would crack up😂
Omfg I just shat myself hahhahahahaah
And he never got caught.
This madlad somehow managed to get away without a trace.
Get out of here with your pip profile picture
The man will reveal on his death bed that it was him. Ultimate. Troll.
stfu
Hell take it to the grave
Dru_da_gangstar also quite possible
meow bastard no you
He was the D. B. Cooper of TV, lol.
If I recall correctly, the Max Headroom show was about a dystopian world where a reporter makes powerful enemies and gets sucked into a TV which turns him into a vengeful talking head who helps the heroes resist corporate control of the media. So there could have been some satire or protest angle to all of this.
I also am a fan of the SNES Shadowrun soundtrack btw.
Max headroom started as an advertising mascot for New Coke, it somehow morphed into a TV show.
@@michaelcowanmichaelcowan969 No it didn’t. The Coca-Cola advertising was in 1988. Max Headroom started in early 1987 as a British television film, “Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.” Later that year came the series, and then after that, Coca-Cola entered the picture.
@@deepspire incorrect. The New Coke commercials featuring Max Headroom came out in 1985, the US series came out in 87. Any argument otherwise is moot, as my reply is still correct and if max did exist prior to his appearance in US commercials and his US show it would be highly unlikely to have been seen in the US, and therefore not an influence on the hack.
Max headroom was a British invention, from channel 4.
Being sure of yourself, being wrong, then saying it's moot.
You look a bit silly dude
@@Guitar-Dog I think you meant to reply to someone else?
This feels like something [adult swim] would do
Yeah, probably... Probably Justin Roiland, and/or Dan Harmon
Adult swim wasn’t even an idea at that time. This was a long time ago
Aha! Mike Lazzo did it!
matanuska high wooosh
@@MatanuskaHIGH I didn't say it was.
It's the outlandishness of it that creeps me out. The distorted voice, the swinging background, like imagine just watching tele and this shit comes on
By some twist of fate I saw both and it was freakishly awesome, with the knowledge that I was witnessing broadcasting history. Just add it to all the other nefarious stuff that happens in Chicago.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Crooty just imagine someone taking acid back then and then seeing this. I've never even dropped and i know I Would ve been freaking the fuck out
If I was alive and saw this whwm it happened, i'd be stoked. I was born in 1992 so I mossed the Max Headroom craze. Which sucks because the concept itself was so interesting to me. They showed cameras that transmit their signal standalone. And a few other things we actually have tpday.
Crooty imagine the one poor bastard who was on acid while this happened 😂
I had no idea that the part where he got an ass spanking even existed
Mr FiZzLe same lmao
your avatar is so perfect lmfao
Ur pfp was my reaction to that
I knew about it but never saw it because I thought his dong was out
I remember seeing the spanking when I was like 8 on a YT video I stumbled upon
If he was just trolling, that would be the pinnacle of it.
hi
Bro I thought it was frickin scary at first then the ass slapping came and it just turned into a joke
Yeah I got a tiny bit less scared
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@@rhondabrowne4162 Until you realize its a young girl doing it
@@neilpatrickhairless american women are like 4 foot 2 I'm pretty sure she was an adult
@@filler7149 American women aren't that damned small
Plot twist: it’s all a Pizza Hut ad
Left4Portal2 bro chill i’m freaking out
steve gaming lol
I hope
Nobody out pizzas the hut
steve gaming fr them Pizza Hut prices too expensive
What if they did it because they just thought it was funny
RaccoonVs that’s probably what happened
For teh lulz
You nailed it. A lot of people really do not understand the hacking culture of this time and often misunderstand why it was ever done. Hackers especially back then, were sometimes known as misfits and had strange sence of humor due to their nature of trying to push the limits of what they can pull off.
Chap, indeed...this was also the height of the Shortwave pirate radio scene as well.
@@jsc315 In the 60s, an 18 year old in Russia suddenly hijacked a radio broadcast and gave an emergency warning that the United States had fired nuclear warheads destined for Russia. This was all for a prank. You can only imagine what happened after that.
That one Russian dude on the csgo server with a bad mic
I'm the 70th like. Ruined the 69 likes HAHAHA
@@kgkbuugj literally no one cares
@@dirtydeeds576 well obviously you cared to comment
@@kgkbuugj oh shit you got me
@@gone1483 fixed it
I think a question just as important of who did it is WHERE it was done, You'd need to be in direct sight of the Sears tower in order to transmit, but you'd also need to be within a mile or two, and with so many buildings surrounding the area, there can only be so many places.
Knowing where exactly would help figuring out who, too, as it'd have to be a spot they'd have enough access to to bring the equipment without arousing suspicion.
I'm not saying your wrong but wouldn't some highly professional investigators over 30 years would know about this.
Did WGN and WTTW both broadcast from there? Maybe they got to the signal before it left the tower.
Bideo, both have stations on the north side. They transmit their signal to a tall building downtown. The signal was hijacked between those two locations.
Its from the car select song from Daytona.
4chan shitposting [Colorized, circa 1987]
Michael Bloomberg he literally talks like he’s from 2017. Talking about liberals, low key referencing Kanye’s West album the life of Pablo (“your love is fading, catch the wave”),also dropping hints on the OJ case talking about how his brother has the other glove with blood on it... some spooky shit lol.
Time traveller perhaps?
@@gumpling69 catch the wave was literally a Max Headroom catch phrase
my parents remember this, they were in there late teens/ early 20's and they told me everyone was freaking out about this. We still live in Chicago to this day.
Shiver me timmbers
do u guys get shot at everyday?
@Eazy e just joking
@Faceless black woman don't get offended.
Stay safe on the street's
The Max headroom incident was and still is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen. I will honestly say that for what ever reason it made me feel unsafe or vulnerable. I feel like someone is there trying to and successfully touching me... right before the world ends.
Your delusional
I don’t think he’s creepy I think this guy is hilarious one of the greatest trolls to live
lol, time to head back to your "safe space". Go call up that shrink and schedule another appt.
Wait till this dude just hacks again as a 60 year old man
"You wanna Sprite Cranberry?"
_throws can off-screen_
It shows nobody understands how much power would it take to hack a satellite signal
If he Makes fun of fortnite ima be laughing
@@thecloneguyz The satellite signal wasn't hacked, the STL was. Very easy to do back then, all analog with easily obtainable equipment.
These comments aren’t from 2021 they are from fucking 2019
My mom saw this when she was 13
she was sitting with my grandma
She said
“That’s just crazy”
Did your mom tells to you that she terrified by it or something??
Yah she said she was actually scared because of the noises in the background and the face of the man
We live in Texas and she didn’t see the doctor who one she saw the news one cause it aired all over the world cause it’s the news but yes she said she doesn’t remember a lot but she does remember what she said and what he looked like and she told my to ask my grandma about it so I called her and she said she does remember it and she said she remembers his face but not a lot
InsomniaB If you can’t tell, he’s lying, he talks like a 8 year old (and plays Roblox) his mom wouldn’t be 13 in 1987.
Nickelodeon Stuff honestly don’t judge a book by its cover...and I’m sorry I’m not good with time and age and math and stuff because she didn’t say an exact age but she just said she was around my age that’s why I put 13...and I’m not lying as it’s news I live in Texas it aired everywhere...and I’m not 8 I’m 13. Also there are people in there 20’s that play roblox and anyways this is kinda trash and stupid how you have to be toxic like that :/ and if anything you’re the 8 year old because Nickelodeon is a kids show for young children
I would say my mom lied but she remembers a lot of it and I didn’t even have to tell her anything
Sorry to tell you this but get your facts straight😐
@@accountaccount8707 You're only getting defensive because you know I'm right, and hey, guess what! I play Roblox as well! Still, no need to lie about your parents seeing this.
Whoever did it, will be approaching 60 years old, or possibly older. As an ex broadcast engineer I agree with the sentiment that this was an inside job. Link frequencies to TX's isn't exactly public knowledge.
You wouldn't have to. You could literally point a small satellite directly at the radio tower and it would override the broadcast.
@@jasonwiggins6137 what?
@@jasonwiggins6137 Who in 1987 would have a small satellite at their disposal?
@@thuglifeVol2 Any tech geek. Broaden your definition of satellite. All you need is a small dish, even a listening device. It's been replicated.
@@jasonwiggins6137 This was the 80's technology wasn't really "small" back then, unless you had military grade stuff.
You're a hell of a story teller.. You tell me stories I didn't ask for and not only do you get my attention, you draw me in get me invested in your internet mysteries. Most videos I watch on UA-cam were background noise.. The way you present these I find my self actively listening
Yeah, i find the story in itself actually pretty dull, but told by Justin i got hooked to it.
Is it me, or was the normal max headroom terrifying to begin with, if I was a kid in the 80s I would’ve been terrified of him
I was wondering why nobody else thought this, because when I was a kid he did scare me a little. Glad you said it. I think I was around 6 at the time, but remember him very clearly.
He grew up to become Mitt Romney.
not really. i mean the premise itself is scary but no, i personally never found max scary
Depends, are you afraid of a waxed virtual Matt Frewer? He was the voice of the Gresit Bishop in the Castlevania Netflix series.
Kinda like how Mr. Muscle traumatized me
Isn't this what Incredibles 2 is about?
LOL
Plot twist: the innocent guy partner was doing this while making the incredibles 2
That’s. What I was thinking about
yep pretty much
LMAO
Imagine someone did this today...
Nobody would see it. TV is dead.
exactly 😂
It isn't
casperld shut the fuck up you pretentious twat
@@Mollusc_music_and_memes bad day honey?
TV is not really dead
Could it not have been that the two brothers made the video and someone within pulled off the hack and used their video? There could be multiple parties involved in something like this. I love this story because I was watching Doctor Who that night as a wee lad growing up in suburban Chicago. It kind of scarred me for life lol
exactly what i was thinking! its totally plausible to me that J and K could have worked with someone on the inside to pull this off. just because the culprit(s) would have had to have inside knowledge doesnt automatically mean J and K are completely ruled out.
this is, of course, assuming the original reddit post is even true, since anyone can go on reddit and post whatever bullshit they want for internet points.
@@kitteneyejo also the fact that they admit they didn’t put it all together at the time leads me to believe that this person isn’t necessarily perceptive enough to consider this.
I’m glad I wasn’t alone in thinking this.
After all these years of living with the guilt, it was me. I did it.
Despite the fact that I wasn't born yet, and that my mother was a child in a different country, this is just as credible as the Reddit posts. Now give me upvotes.
You serious?
@@personaguy3682 he said "despite the fact he wasn't born yet", of course it wasn't him lol
It was me liar I was born 2013 you weren’t
@@fluidky5012 fuck you all it was me and you can't prove me right or wrong
@@camerabox1 you are wrong because it was ME.
You're telling me that the man could have been...
A B O O M E R?
gosh darn boomers
fuck boomers
Golly gee boomers
200th like lmao
LDBlokland ok boomer
Maybe the real Max Headroom was the friends we made along the way
We are all maniacs
FCC: HANDS UP!
Madlad jahn
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ok boomer wins the interwebs 💗💗💗💗
Wh...Wha.....*WHAT*
I love that he just punished himself by slapping his Butt infront of TV.
Oof
WTF man,i also saw it,his butt is really large,XD
@@alphagaming2ph200 thicc
All I made out from what the masked guy said was, “He’s a freaking nerd”
This guy is probably still laughing about it to this day
Yeah I hope someone claims it
He’s 54-60
Oh I still laugh about it indeed
I think he died mostly since this was really long ago
@@drxd3659 yeah, alright mate, believe what you wanna believe
I wonder if the man behind the max headroom mask is among the 28k thumbs up...
Gamer McGameface maybe he is, we just don’t know yet
What if he is among your 463 likes?
Then we give him a very nice hello
Gamer McGameface it’s me
BLAWESOME57 what if he was one your 6 likes
Things that happened on november 22nd
JFK gets shot
Max headroom
My birthday.
Coincidence? I think not
They were J And K, Who Is F
malyee my birthday is on chris chan’s birthday and we are both stupid as hell. Coincidence? I think not!
F
@@justaspectator9762 F was added after he died to pay respects
Ur goin 2 jail bub
Its funny to think how this guy could still be alive and be an old man laughing about all this now. I think it was an engineer's teenage son who just wanted to mess around with his friends and by pure luck and accident was able to pull it off. Knowing what trouble they got themselves into all involved swore to take it to the grave.
Old man? I resent that remark!!!
_"A portion of his anatomy. I'm so glad TV is dying."_
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Was that the Max Headroom incident of 87?"
Potatofy Gaming 👏👏👏👏
Potatofy Gaming. ah a FNAF fan, you may be mistaken for the Incident of 83. A golden Maxy like being in a purple hat did a creepy message on tv.
@@gamersgamestorm8291 only the irl theorists can solve this
lol
The max behind the slaughter
Me: Puts on captions so I can understand the hacker
The Captions: [Audio From The Max Headroom Incident]
I watched the second one live with my dad. Fascination and concern turned to hilarious laughter when the flyswatter came out.
The fact that this happened in 1987 makes it even cooler by far. Because it would take a hell lot of power and experience to do something like this at the time.
It was probably done by someone with a lot of experience in that stuff
Wasn't as hard as you think it would be. He might even have a youtube channel. Lives in Florida from what I hear.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES tell more?
Actually, it would be a lot easier (technically speaking) than now. Transmissions weren't encrypted typically. Organizations security were lax because the knowledge and equipment typically were not in the hands of the public. No need to lock doors in a town were nobody is a thief sort of thing.
Soooo basically hackers were wearing Max Headroom masks before Guy Fawkes masks.
Eric Garcia They should bring it back.
R H Guy is way older and it’s already got the whole thing about it because it’s achieved meme status. I think using Max might be a good idea
No real hackers wear guy fawkes masks
No these guys are much bigger trolls and brilliant then Anon wish they were
N for Fricken' Newspaper Nerds
The creepiest thing out of all of this is the Clutch Cargo mouths
Yes, the real nightmare
@@MrTele-Tell yes Apple
Or those fucking weird videos with the mannequin looking thing
@@katastrophixx yeah bro those flippin mannequin things are creepy as fuck and i cant watch the whole video cuz of them
yeah i only just realized that a scene from pulp fiction, has clutch cargo. when butch as a child is talking to christopher walken, he was watching clutch cargo.
I used to confuse Max Headroom with Mac Tonight.
Matt Frewer, Doug Jones, both weirdly skinny dudes, I can understand 🤓
Yeah both wear tuxedos, both also wear sunglasses and both have something to do with Coke
We all confused max headroom for Mac tonight
Come on make it Mac Tonight!
@@supersix-four9509 you're my hero
Good video. A few things:
1) No one is at large. Statute of limitations has long expired.
2) The idea that it came from the Chicago BBS community is a good one.
3) LOTS of Chicago BBS’ers claimed credit in the first 24 hours, until they all realized this was a serious crime.
4) It was certainly an associate of Dr. Ripco. A message board at the time had a technical question related to the intrusion.
5) The number of locations this could be done from are very limited, but densely populated.
6) Small point: It’s pronounced luh-GRAYNGE :)
But a good video.
diamondlod thanks... Facts seem to make my terrifying imagination a lot less frightening
I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid as it was happening. Good times. Asking my parents why Max was being spanked with a fly swatter was the highlight of the night.
Phathom well. What did they say
Phantom ikr
Kinky
i smell bullshit*
press x to doubt
God this used to creep me out. But watching this made me realize this was just most likely a troll with no malicious intent. Just a harmless prank. Still i get unnerved at times
Ssj Chixken not just a troll, if only you knew the intelligence and autism required to pull this off, bare in mind in the 80's, you needed alot more tech than people easily let on. You needed highly specialized knowledge In UHF broadcasting, masking etc etc. Give this guy the credit he deserves.
So it’s basicly it’s low budget fetish porn
Ben Phone at the time it would cost 25 thousand dollars
Ssj Chixken me to
There is a theory that the guy behind the mask had severe autism, that's why everything he says doesn't make sense, goes back and forth etc. He mentions his brother and the two of them were said to be big broadcast hackers of the 80s
I think the Reddit story could be true. It seemed the original posters just suddenly dropped it and said never mind. It is possible the authorities got involved which could have scared him, and the people involved may have got in touch with him and told him to shut up lol. I don't think we will ever know.
I thought that too, but at the same time, I know nothing of TV broadcasting equipment and what technology/knowledge someone would need to have to pull this off. That said, I don't think the possibility of a group of really dedicated hackers somehow getting their hands on it is completely implausible.
They probably had connections to some people working on the tv stations so they were able to pull this off, im sure this Reddit story is true
Reddit has it all wrong
The authorities can't do anything anyway as the statute of limitations has LONG since expired.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES What makes you so sure of that. You seem to be dropping little bread crumbs here and there, whether or not they're relevant, who's to say...
There is a high chance that the max headroom guy is dead
Ye
Depends
@Terro how do u know explain do u know the guy
Terro no it’s not u lyer
Terro yhyh ur a ballshiter
Hey man, good video. But I just wanted to say that the Reddit story seems fake. He claims someone told him to "watch Channel 11 that night." So he did, and he saw the incident live. Allegedly.
The problem with that is, the attack was aimed for Channel 9 (WGN-TV). That's why "Max" picks on Chuck Swirsky, and "World's Greatest Newspaper" (WGN). That's where the attack first happened, but WGN engineers quickly changed frequencies and stopped it, they didn't even manage to make the sound work. So after that failed attempt, they went for Channel 11, where they got much more airtime, with sound and everything, and they could play the whole skit (which was still talking about Channel 9, even though it was on Channel 11). That's the one on YT which we all know and love.
Had the redditor met the guys who did it beforehand, surely they would have told him to watch Channel 9, not 11, as that was the aim of the prank. That is just one of the holes in his story, which seems like the typical Reddit lying for attention. It literally feels like he picked apart every detail of the video and built a story around it. Max says "my brother has the other one." He knew two brothers. The tape ends with someone spanking him? He had a dirty sense of humor. Max says "ooooh" all the time? One of the brothers also said "oooh" all the time. Just smells like a load of shit to me.
Only 8 likes... :/
Lets not forget that their names are J and K
i wonder where is that mask? and who has it? what happened to it?
someone has it..in a dusty old box in a basement somewhere..
or it was thrown in the trash never to be seen ever again..
@Alex Sava i think you overthought this way to much 😂
@@lesliem8035 it had to be done
1980's: some dood hacks the Chicago TV
2019: Hacking air raid sirens.
playing patrick's wee woo on a tornado siren
@@yournamegoeshere7584 yes
Ooh I’m gonna build siren head and hack sirens
What makes this even better is the fact legally nothing can be done to everyone involved because of how long it's been and none of them had revealed being involved with it making it one of the greatest troll moves of all time
Imagine a guy named John mcdoogle hacking a world wide news channel
Who is that?
@@Jordanthefoo
Popular dude, and was accused of being behind the hijack, also he meant John McDougall
Lmao
FishheadMcgee XD, thanks for the explanation. 😊
Lucas wtf? First time i see an account like that lol (earthbound character i meant)
Wow the 80s version of Incredibles 2
Aaah my eyes
Wait...aint the incredibles set in the past?....
@@matchyu yeah but isn't it the 70s?
@@crazycarbonara idk...more like 90's or 80's
@@crazycarbonara no 60s actually
"The FCC won't let me be.."
And let me be me so let me see
They tried to shut me down on MTV
But it feels so empty without me
Haha one of Mr.Mather's best tunes IMO... I'm from UK & remember having to find out who/what the FCC was ! Haha
I was thinking this to
I’m old enough to remember this, vaguely. I’m surprised the tv wasn’t hijacked more often over the years.
It's not easy to do and now almost impossible as everything is encrypted.
Guy in the mask: “uuuu u uu uuuuuuu uuu uuuuu uu uuuu u u”
“The Chuck Swerski that he’s talking about...”
Oh, he was talking? Uh, sure, if you say so........
He said "he's a fuckin' nerd. Yeah i think i'm better than Chuck Swerski"
@@MrRockTable he IS better
Homie was speaking wingdings
Max: gibberish
Me: wut
Whang: The person he's talking about is...
I was a whole 12 days old when the first incident happened.
lewandowska The world isn’t all about you
@@thefonzkiss he wasnt saying anything like that he just said it because it was funny
TheIdioticNoob - that's a lady brah
@@jmoney7289 bruh bruh bruh
TheIdioticNoob - breh
Just for clarification according to wikipedia at 2:52 - He only was caught because someone over heard him ranting about the price hikes over a payphone.
" MacDougall surrendered to the authorities, after which he was served with a court subpoena due to a tourist having overheard him discussing the incident on a pay phone off Interstate 75"
Just want to pop in and point out that 'Horror of Fang Rock' is a CLASSIC episode, really brilliant stuff. Leela was such a great companion.
Basically one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in broadcasting is what jackass interrupted a really good Doctor Who episode.
Quinton Reviews
Oi whaddup Quinton, I was literally just watching your New York video. Being from Queens, it was weird to see you go to places I go to every year on school trips.
Hey DZAP! That's awesome to hear, my trip was a lot of fun and I hope you enjoyed the video!
No wonder people got so mad about this
Quinton Reviews
I was wondering if you were able to see Marlon Brando’s fake jaw from The Godfather in the museum of the moving image
Quinton Reviews Great stuff.
Two meals in one day at Pizza Hut, and an apartment crammed full hard drives and monitors -- ah, what we thought was the perfect life in the '80s!
Add in monthly LAN parties and it's heaven :)
Ok but imagine you just watching dr who and then you see a man in a mask getting spanked with a fly swatter.
Imagine Beeing a kid and seeing this at night
Everyone else is saying that shut the fuck up with your shitty ass fortnite profile picture.
@@Rick-fn5qg It's stupid seeing the exact same comment repeated a million times.
@@swaggerdagger8976 if anything drag him for spelling being wrong.
@@swaggerdagger8976 Stfu Almost all the comments are the same
being*
I only know Max for one thing...
_Somethings wrong. I can feel it_
@Blindi He's making a lyrical reference about Eminem's Rap God music video, which has a homage on Max Headroom.
@Blindi heres some information, you're terrible at it.
Blindi r/wooooooosh LMAO
I been feeling like a rap god
YES
This was 19 years before Shrek... you fill in the rest
Roger Blasko *O H H E L L O T H E R E !*
Do you think the Max Headroom incident may have something to do with Shrek?
Shrek 5 comes out *2019*
This made my night. XD
It was during the time when MTV actually had music videos on TV, because you know ... they’re called Music TV 😆
1:11 demonic, distorted creepy voice,
Subtitles, auto generated: *M U S I C*
I swear my uncle would and could have been that guy. He had knowledge and owned all this strange hacking technology of the 80's and was a super smart but odd guy. He totally would have pulled a prank like this. And he lived in Chicago his whole life.
@ SisterAudrey Grey you report it yet?
Ask him lol
Does he know anyone mentioned in the Reddit story about the max headroom incident?
Ask him, if it’s not him then if he was in the hacking group of the 80s chances that he probably knows them
Waht?!
😥
Me: sees max headroom
Also me: Eminem?
Somethings wrong I can feel it
6 minutes slim shady you’re on
Travis Harris did u just spam the words on top of the keyboard
The Rap God music video seems like a reference to this.
Vegetable Man that’s what it reminds me of!
as of 1992 the Headroom Hacker of 1987 would be safe by law
"In the absence of a specific statute of limitations,
the default federal limitations period of five years applies."
in the United States the first cyberpunk series Max Headroom
broke into the broadcasts to mock the mind-controlling media
& ended 1988
Noted
I remember my mom told me about this. She was 16 when this happened and her dad (my grandpa) was mad because he couldn’t watch the news.
Lol
It was over an airing of Doctor Who though
@@Iemonzinger and a sports game
Doctor: Asian Penguinz0 doesn’t exist, he cant hurt you
Asian Penguinz0:
Cant unsee it now
He kinda. Does look like critical...
@@liamfitzgerald4110 broo... Noooooo
he's more like wavywebsurf
Bruh
I does not matter who did this. The statute of limitations has long passed. I doubt the FCC would even attempt to interview anyone after 32 years.
They're still trying to lock D. B. Cooper up, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were still looking.
Jimmy See. DB Cooper took hostages and robbed airplane passenger, though.
@@TheTimoprimo That's a fair point.
yeah and they might even be dead
They have to find him first. Cough Cough
This guys channel is Internet historian but younger.
Internet Historian does a voice, I’m guessing he’s younger than Whang.
@@thefreelancequeen Internet Historian is 30, according to UA-cam wiku and Whang is 34, according to some metal website
general grievous hello there
And with more cumjar
The narrative that it was an inside hatchet job is bunk. I'm a broadcast engineer. Any ham radio hack could have pulled this off with an antenna in the correct length for the frequency matched to a transmitter. And amplified with a linear.
And a fly swatter.
And a marital aid.
And a gluttonous maximous
And a dildo
And an anatomical area
That "twisting of the story" may be due to his age now, probably 50-60 years old if it's real
the only n word we drop in my house is nachos bellgrande
Buplo Gamer watch your tone
Okay?
Buplo oh boy nachos bellgrande!
I had a life-size Max Headroom cardboard thing back in '87/'88 (I was 24/5 I think). It was a display in a supermarket and I just picked it up and walked out with it. Middle of the day, full of shoppers. No-one looked sideways at me. We kept him near the front door to freak our friends out. Only works the first time though.
I did the Max Headroom incident, you did the Max Headroom incident, We all did the max room head incident
I'm Wambo
You're wambo
We're all wambo
You're insane, I'm insane, we are all insane
im sparticus
Im why undertale has a bad fanbase
Your the reason undertale has a bad fanbase
We all made the undertale fambase bad
@Maiahi r/woosh
" 0:40 to 0:46 " man you can hear Whang losing his breath a little with that last line lol
1980s shitposters were on that LSD shit. But seriously, though, this was fascinating. It's an amazing look into technology's past and the things we have forgotten. To think, there was actually a time when hackers would not reasonably be able to pull something like this off without insider access. Now-a-days, they're breaking into Equifax like a kid with a dispensable capsule toy.
Lucid Theming gets epic owned by 5 year old - 2018.
+Lucid Theming LSD was big in the 60's. I was in the Navy in 87 and I can't recall LSD being a big thing ever in the 80's.
TheJer1963 LSD has always been a thing, in fact I'm taking it this month
Yeah atleast a coupe of times a year, and more if I have the time and opportunity :)
1980s were big on coke, not LSD. LSD didn't get popular again until the mid-90s. Not saying coke couldn't give you some real interesting ideas, just saying it wouldn't have been LSD these "shitposters" were on.
The equipment *_did_* exist in the wild! Ham radio operators were regularly transmitting analog television even in the 80's. Finding the studio to transmitter link frequencies could have been as easy as looking it up in a book from Radio Shack used with police scanners. Alternatively a scanner or UHF ham radio could find the point to point link. These links are not scrambled and can be overridden by a fairly weak signal if it's close enough to the receiver or using a directional antenna, a small thing at those frequencies.
This. It's not impossible to build equipment from scratch either anyway, and it's easier to override a signal than one would think.The FCC regulates things, if you just wanted to do a short illegal broadcast, there is nothing stopping you from cranking up the power since you're breaking the law anyway. TV stations are limited in the power that they're allowed to put out.
Ove course they didn't have to override the high powered main transmitter, only the link between the studio and the transmitter. That link is usually between 5 and 100 watts depending on the distance. A 1 watt amateur TV transmitter could easily do it just by being within a couple of blocks of the transmitter tower. Since both WTTW and WGN use the Willis Tower the pirate didn't even have to move between the two incidents.
Yeah, Like that would ever hap
There's another conspiracy theory around all of this.
The FCC absolutely knew how the hack was done and where it came from. The reason they claimed NOT to know was very simple: the airwaves in those days were shockingly insecure and they didn't want to encourage copycats or enable serious crime by stating how it was done and what equipment was used.
This was just a harmless silly prank which made a very important statement. Think of the real and serious damage that could be done otherwise.
@@clarissamcpigeon7857 It was still insecure in the days of analog cable. Comcast in Philadelphia used a normal outdoor TV antenna to recieve the signal from an Allentown station 60 miles away. When the station went off the air on weekend nights another channel 39 from Long Island, New York over 100 miles away would show up on cable channel 39 but only when the weather was right. That ment it was probably relaying anything strong enough on that channel. It would have been easy for someone to transmit a signal on TV channel 39 that was stronger than the distant signals from either Long Island or Allentown with just a TV extender from Radio Shack, a VCR and a small outdoor antenna. If they had made it portable and transmitted from a car they may even avoided the FCC doppler direction finding vans.
I still think J and K did it. “Just watch channel 11 tonight.” How the hell could someone predict something like that? They probably knew someone who had access to whatever “inside” technology they needed and also had a vendetta against Chuck Swirsky and “the world’s greatest newspaper nerds,” and that combined with J and K’s technological knowledge makes it absolutely possible that they did it.
spread it exactly what I was thinking
or probably that whole J and M thing was a lie
mad max true
mad max well two people came out and said that they knew J and K, so I don’t think so. But then again I could be wrong
Black Magic I suppose it’s possible for those two people to have planned on both pretending to know J and K. I don’t think we’ll ever know tho :(
Two Things in no particular order: (1) Captain Midnight, soon after capture, was identified as a satellite tv store owner and not an engineer.. He could’ve been both, of course. (2) There is a theory that an insider did not transmit anything but instead placed a strip of video tape over a spool of recorded tape set to be used later. Seems highly unlikely bc someone would have noticed bulge in tape or someone would have noticed him taking spool out of office or unwinding/rewinding it. Even if he copied the original tape and recorded over a small section, someone would have noticed when or how he did it.
This audio from this tv hijack sounds like Xbox 10 dollar mics
Got to admit your pretty accurate
Kinda like M3RKMUSIC Reading Xbox messages
thats an insult to xbox and i approve
What's sad .... and really tells my age .... is that I remember this happening. jfc
B B how old are you?
B B - I feel the same way. Feel so old I feel like the 90s were only a decade age...
I wasnt born till 5 years later LUL. I feel old but you must feel ancient
Did u see it live?
I was born in 1971. In UA-cam years.....I`m dead.
So first off I’m sorry for the lack of structure and messiness that is my writing. Also if you have any sorta thoughts on this or evidence to disprove it I’d be glad to hear it, and all that.
I know this is many years too late but I have a very solid plausible theory. While J and K didn’t do the hack themselves they made the video. Between speech patterns and jokes, as well as the skipping around and voice distortion (back then it would be quite easy to do the voice effects with the AV equipment they had at the time) I believe that J and K made the video as a fact. They also were big in the phreak scene of the local area and mentioning channel 11 means they knew about it before it happened, something like that wouldn’t be posted on a board because if it was, FCC and internet detectives would have found it by now, also more people would have seen it and watched channel 11 at that time, and I don’t believe they would ruin their surprise early also warning it would draw attention and I believe FCC would have already searched that angle. This means J and K didn’t do the hack. So we have the technician who I will call T from here on out. T was an audio tech who knew J and K either through the boards or as a personal friend. This would most likely be as a personal relationship to J and K that allowed both parties to know and access the skills and knowledge of the other. J and K would probably have done this for fun as well as being like a phreak’s wet dream to fuck with tv. The chances of another person, much less a technician for the broadcasting channels having the same speech patterns as J is very much impossible or close to it. Also I imagine the FCC would have picked up on it if they had exhausted the whole lead of technicians. It would be quite easy to pick up such a unique speech pattern and mannerism of the one the person on video had. So I rule out it being a single tech with a vendetta that did both the video and the hack. I believe the hack was already planned and ready to go at least a week or two in advance, the video was edited and sent to the tech probably hand delivered by J and/or K. I believe that the first channel hack without audio was to make sure they could do it smoothly in a control environment or just to test that it was possible and went smoothly as to test the waters and get a little practice, even teasing the night to come. The tech then put it on channel 11 the couple hours later that it would most likely take to directly go and do everything before booking it. J and K didn’t know a specific time but they knew it would be later that night and probably knew it would be during the doctor who episode. Now we have it after the hack where all three lay low and nobody snitched or claimed it. Thus I believe it was both an outside and inside job, having a guy inside who planned and executed the physical parts and mainly the illegal parts of the plan, and J&K being the ones to make the video. This of course is pure speculation with inferences on a secondary source and for the most part shouldn’t be taken as anything more than my personal belief. Though this is the first thing that sprung to my head, and I feel like it fits both the previous story and the revelation of being an inside job.
TL;DR: J&K made the video, but a disgruntled tech did the hack.
That's what I've been thinking as well
When you want to show people your funni parody sketch but you have no way to do it, so you hijack two TV stations and somehow remain completely anonymous for years afterward.
Yes
epic.
This is the shit that nightmares are made of.
Jonathan Hendrix yep
Jonathan Hendrix
But it’s funny as fuck at the same time.
Steve Johnson yeah especially when he was being spanked or whatever lmao
Some random Guy by who?
Spring Trap did you not watch the video
Anonymous hackers have been around since the '80s. Wow
Some consider Captain Crunch to be the first hacker, back in the 70s. Debatable though.
With severe autism too. The more things change the more they stay the same.
The 80's was the heyday for hackers because few things had sufficient security yet, I mean you would never think to make the mouthpiece of a payphone tamper-proof because the last thing you would imagine is someone figuring out they can use a coin to manipulate the dial tone for free calls. Anything electronic became a challenge to find out what free stuff you could make it do.
70's. Modems have been around a very long time.
Would've been easier then and they're just hackers, you say anonymous hackers like they are a part of the "Anonymous" movement or "Anonymous Hackers".
“A ‘portion of his anatomy’, haha”
*”I’m so glad the TV is dying.”*