Russian Hackers halted traffic as they replace roadside video adverts with Porn !!!
- Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:44
The size of the displays has increased as the cost of making the display technology has come down, the public video billboards has got a Big value in the Admarket. These displays allow TV-like adverts to be displayed in shopping malls, at the road side, and many other places where its prominent is more and can reach a wider audience with such type of display ads.With hackers getting into these advert, Traffic came to a standstill as the motorists stopped to watch in amazement as the two displays showed the pornographic clip posted by hackers on big-screen video billboards in Moscow, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
Some enterprising hacker/s had managed to take control of these two billboards located on Moscow’s Garden Ring Road. The video they chose to upload or stream was X-rated pornography.
“Within three minutes we found it out, and within fifteen minutes the screen was shut off,” the deputy head of the Moscow city advertising committee, Alexander Menchuk, was quoted as saying by Interfax.
Witnesses said traffic crawled to a halt as unbelieving motorists craned their necks to stare at the X-rated clip, which ran for about 20 minutes on the over sized screens.
