Someone Hacked a Billboard in Atlanta to Display Goatse

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By Jason Koebler
Staff Writer
Motherboard.vice.com
May 15, 2015

Atlanta's affluent Buckhead neighborhood is a great place to shop, eat, 
and, last weekend, it was a great place to spot a man bent over stretching 
his asshole far beyond what could possibly be healthy.

Hackers took over a video billboard in the neighborhood and replaced it 
the most infamous image from Goatse, one of the internet's original shock 
sites (Image here, if you must see it). Specific details about how the 
hackers hijacked the billboard haven't come out yet, but one security 
researcher says that he warned the company that owns and operates the 
billboard that many of its signs are vulnerable.

Dan Tentler is a well-respected security researcher who works for Carbon 
Dynamics, a security firm. Thursday, he tweeted that he had been in 
contact with the company that owns the billboard and was told thanks but 
no thanks.

"I wanted to let you guys know that your customers are deploying these 
signs and not changing the default passwords, which, if an actual bad guy 
found this out, could lead to some unwanted tinkering with the signs, 
possibly some defacement," Tentler wrote in an email send in April to the 
company.

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