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There are art hacks, and then there are art HACKS.

Thursday 21 June 2007 at 3:24 pm
Somewhere in Czechoslovakia (or whatever it's really called these days - I was never any good with geopolitical boundries in that region of the world, which I suppose marks me as a product of the United States public education system), the owners of a local attraction of some beauty have a webcam set up. You can go to their website and look out over the woods, the hot springs, and what have you.

On Sunday morning a group of crackers and pranksters calling themselves Ztohoven hacked the camera feed to make it look like someone had just detonated a nuclear device. Either by design or through coincidence, the webcam feed was being shown on local television at the moment they switched the images. There's a video of the newscast linked through this article.

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four comments recorded.

It’s simply Czech Republic. They split up with Slovakia in 1992. (Hmm, Wikipedia says Jan 1 1993. So much for my memory!)

BTW these “landscape” webcams broadcast on TV are reasonably popular in the region, you can see the weather and the snow (if there is any) in tourist destinations.

prezzey - 21 06 07 - 17:07 - Reply to comment?

oh, wow, hehe, teheee, MUHAAAAAA

that’s great.

binder - 21 06 07 - 17:59 - Reply to comment?

Thank you – that explains a few things.

They are? I can see why it caused such a stir, then.

The Doctor (URL) - 22 06 07 - 09:39 - Reply to comment?

It’s an amusing state of affairs when the world is starting to mirror that of the movie Hackers more and more every day.

The Doctor (URL) - 22 06 07 - 09:40 - Reply to comment?


  
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