How NOT To Hack Times Square
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
This YouTube clip is currently ‘doing the rounds’. Entitled ‘how to hack video screens on times square‘ it is of course completely faked…
… even if you assumed that the guy in the video made something that could emulate a DVI/VGA signal, the transmitter would have to be REALLY powerful (for example, if he was 10 metres away he’d have to be pumping out hundreds of watts of finely-calibrated signal) AND that’s assuming of course that any screens / billboards on Times Square use radio waves for video transmission or would be affected by same.
March 14th, 2011 at 18:03 @794
At least he found a way to get an Iphone to work in NYC.
March 15th, 2011 at 14:52 @661
See also http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/15/hoax-of-the-decade-fake-times-square-video-hacker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GrahamCluleysBlog+%28Graham+Cluley%27s+blog%29