The Max Headroom signal hijacking

In 1987 someone in a Max Headroom mask hijacked two Chicago TV stations' broadcasts. Despite an FCC investigation, they were never identified. Still…

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Two minutes of hijacked broadcast, a guy in a rubber mask spanking a fake audience, and thirty-plus years later the FCC file is still marked unsolved.

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