1980s Satellite Signal Hijacks: Captain Midnight & Max Headroom
RETRO TELEVISION • 1980s HISTORY 1980’s Satellite Signal Hijacks Captain Midnight, Max Headroom, and two unforgettable television interruptions from the 1980s. BY @GIJoeRepairShop | SERPENTORSLAIR.COM It’s a common refrain that some things that folks could do in the 1980s, they can’t do today. Some things in the 1980s were certainly easier to do. That includes hacking satellite links. Today’s modern encryption and data integrity methods make hijacking satellite signals impractical at best. However, that was not the case for two famous signal hijacking cases from forty years ago. THE CAPTAIN…
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