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The Story Of The Max Headroom Incident, America’s Creepiest Unsolved TV Hack
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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My understanding was that there was a studio building with a low power transmitter, and the transmissions from that were broadcasted to the high power antenna which would then beam it out to consumers. By placing their dish between these two points, the hacker was able to overpower the signal to the antenna and insert their own video feed.