RE: 'Suspicious Packages' That Paralyzed Boston Part of Cartoon Network Marketing Campaign

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Graffiti Research Lab just put this statement on their Web site:

   http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

   You may have heard about the most recent terror attacks 
   in Boston. This is NOT the work of the Graffiti Research 
   Lab. We just downloaded this link from youtube. It's Just 
   more mindless corporate vandalism from a guerilla marketer 
   who got busted. Interference Inc, welcome to the world of 
   being misunderstood, scapegoated, demonized and wanted by 
   the law. Still want to be a graffiti artist?

   For more on this most recent terror attack from the axis 
   of evil (corporations, advertisers, marketers) check out 
   this civic-minded citizens post on Flickr.

Interference, who the Cartoon Network hired to run the campaign, has turned
off their Web site:

   http://www.interferenceinc.com/

A local Boston-area artist just got busted for this mess:

   Artist arrested for planting marketing figures
 
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/01/artist_ar
rested.html

Richard


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Krpata, Tyler [mailto:tkrpata () bjs com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:54 PM
To: rms () computerbytesman com; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] 'Suspicious Packages' That Paralyzed Boston Part of
Cartoon Network Marketing Campaign

Images of the "device"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/tags/graffitiresearchlab/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On
> Behalf Of rms () computerbytesman com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:53 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] 'Suspicious Packages' That Paralyzed Boston Part of 
> Cartoon Network Marketing Campaign
>
> Oh brother!  Marketeers are behind the DOS attack in Boston today.
>
> Richard
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249110,00.html
>
> BOSTON -  A suspicious package alert that shut down downtown Boston 
> Wednesday afteroon was actually part of an elaborate marketing
campaign by
> the Cartoon Network to spark interest in their "Aqua Teen Hunger
Force"
> show.
>
> After state and local officials said they were launching an
investigation
> into the series of "suspicious packages" found around the city, the 
> Cartoon Network released a statement saying the packaged are actually 
> magnetic lights that pose no danger.
>
> "They are part of an outdoor marketing campaign in 10 cities in
support of
> Adult Swim's animated television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force," the 
> statement said. "They have been in place for two to three weeks in
Boston,
> New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin,
San
> Francisco, and Philadelphia. Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in 
> contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations
of
> the billboards. We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose
any
> danger."
>
> Some of the images left on the devices were in the form of characters 
> called "Mooninites" from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
>
>
>
>
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