News 14 Carolina gets pwnt

**asch** · 04-28-2005, 12:34 PM

This article cracked me up. Check out the screenshots.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~smheath/news14.html

Quote:

On February 26, 2004, we had a snowstorm here in Raleigh, and all the news channels posted the businesses and schools that would be closed the next day. One of these fine news organizations, Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina, chose the most convenient but least secure method to allow businesses to report closings: the Internet. Well, it wasn't long before members of The Wolf Web, an NCSU message board, exposed this flaw. They went crazy, as you're about to see. The best part of the whole thing was once a closing was accepted, it could be edited on the Internet and would go straight to TV without having to be reviewed again, so a fake closing that seemed plausible the first time it was shown could be outrageous the next time.

Root · 04-28-2005, 12:56 PM

Great find Asch!

Root

**Pokerface** · 04-28-2005, 01:07 PM

That is SPECTACULAR.

I can't imagine how much I'd lose it if while watching closings one day, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" rolled across the bottom.

verbose · 04-28-2005, 02:22 PM

It's gone from the Penny-Arcade site, but the WayBack Machine has it!

http://web.archive.org/web/200210150...02-09-23&res=h

Check out the first and last frames.

drew_952 · 04-28-2005, 04:12 PM

Beautiful find.....that made my day

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Pokerface Join Date: May 2003 Location: MD, USA Age: 29 Posts: 5,722	Re: News 14 Carolina gets pwnt That is SPECTACULAR. I can't imagine how much I'd lose it if while watching closings one day, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" rolled across the bottom. __________________ NS Game Officer. TF2 Admin. BF2 Admin / Scripter. PM with issues. Tempus: Pokerface is nailing it right on the head. Everyone who is arguing against him is simply arguing against reality. <anmuzi> it is not permitted to have privacy or anonymity <LazyEye> yeah when I play on TG the server digs though my trash Arm yourself with knowledge: TG NS TF2 BF2

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verbose Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA Age: 27 Posts: 409	Re: News 14 Carolina gets pwnt It's gone from the Penny-Arcade site, but the WayBack Machine has it! http://web.archive.org/web/200210150...02-09-23&res=h Check out the first and last frames. __________________ "Hardly used" will not fetch a better price for your brain.

04-28-2005, 04:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
drew_952 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Chicago Age: 30 Posts: 157	Re: News 14 Carolina gets pwnt Beautiful find.....that made my day

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