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Hackers Take Over Unsecured Radio Transmitters, Play Anti-Trump Song (arstechnica.com)
Ars Technica is reporting that "a certain model of Low Power FM radio transmitter with known vulnerabilities has been targeted in a new wave of radio-station hacks this week." Hackers have taken advantage of an exploit that was known all the way back in April 2016 to take over terrestrial radio stations and broadcast the YG and Nipsey Hussle song "Fuck Donald Trump." From the report: News of the song's unexpected playback on radio stations began emerging shortly after Trump's inauguration on January 20, and the hack has continued to affect LPFM stations -- a type of smaller-radius radio station that began to roll out after the FCC approved the designation in 2000. Over a dozen stations experienced confirmed hacks in recent weeks, with more unconfirmed reports trickling in across the nation. Thus far, the stations' commonality isn't the states of operation or music formats; it's the transmitter. Specifically, hackers have targeted products in the Barix Exstreamer line, which can decode many audio file formats and send them along for LPFM transmission. As Barix told its products' owners in 2016, Exstreamer devices openly connected to the Internet are incredibly vulnerable to having their remote login passwords discovered and systems compromised. The company recommends using full, 24-character passwords and placing any live Internet connections behind firewalls or VPNs. Reports have yet to connect any dots on why the exploit has apparently focused on the YG and Nipsey Hussle song -- though it is fairly popular, having recently finished in the Top 15 of the Village Voice's 2016 Pazz and Jop music critics' poll. Plus, the uncensored lyrics and topical nature are certainly more likely to catch people's attention, especially when played on stations with formats like oldies, classic rock, and Tejano.
Yes, let me tell you. The Village Voice's "Pazz and Jop" chart is where I go first to see what's trending amongst large swaths of Americans.
In fact, I and everyone in here in the office celebrate the entire catalog of "Nipsey Hussle".
Stay classy, dissenters, stay classy...
Unlike slashdot, which has gone down the toilet.
I'm guessing "Nipsey Hussle" took his stage name as a play on the name of the comedian Nipsey Russell.
#DeleteChrome
Trump Derangement Syndrome is in full swing.
It's really hard to have people take you seriously when you're trying to convince them that Trump is reckless, when those opposed to Trump are the ones pulling stunts like this.
Honestly if you did not have a VPN tunnel in place you deserve this in spades. Only a complete and utter moron would have something as important as the radio station audio feed to be unprotected.
But after working at several radio stations in my life. 100% of radio station owners are pretty much drooling morons.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Lol I read LBFM at first glance.
it's PRO-Trump. TILF.
Time to deport you!
That will show him, right?
Aw, I don't want to actually *rape* the guy.
I'll just grab him by the pussy.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
The thing is, to most of us it seems quite a hyperbolic stretch to go from restrictions on what foreigners we allow into our country to "Muslims, Hispanics, and Blacks".
(N/T)
We need to build the wall first.
How do you know this was done by anyone in the US? Oh right, you have no fucking idea but are instantly ready to play politics with any football news item.
I guess we ought to be proud of you not for inventing any bullshit statistics and passing that off as alternate reality, right? Great job kid.
O. M. G.
That is like so last year.
Right, right. I'm sure it was Russians.
Yes, but the hyperbole was Trump's.
He knew what he was saying. I've heard several of his defenders say he was being controversial, whether it be his Mexican-paid-for wall or his Muslim ban, or his literally founded ISIS.
Hold him to account. I dare you to even admit Trump is prone is pompous bombastic language.
Or just plain inarticulate gabble, like what he said about Frederick Douglass.
"stop making your point so badly" - Philip J. Fry
fuck white people.
If you try to turn it into a race thing, you will lose. We all will lose.
The reason there isn't much of a reaction in this case is that people expect hackers to do childish things once they've taken control of something, particularly because they're using other people's property to do so.
That, and, you know, playing something like "Fuck Obama" wouldn't necessarily have been as overtly racist as "Barak the Magic Negro".
All the right sees is that someone else's gain is their loss. It's all about them.
Mexican gets a job picking tomatoes that Americans won't do? "We lost another American job!"
Lesbian gets the right to buy a cake wherever she wants? "We lost the right to discriminate!"
Factory can't pollute the river anymore? "We're losing our freedom to rape the Earth!"
Everyone gets health insurance? "We're losing our weekly dinner at The Sizzler!"
It's never,
"Hey, congratulations on your newly-acquired freedoms and rights!"
"I'm glad we got some people to do that job that nobody really wanted to do, because it increases income tax revenue and helps support our national infrastructure!"
"It's awesome we're doing something good for the planet!"
The right is just one giant selfish asshole. That's why they can't see the different between Trump's election and Obama's election, and can't understand why the reactions to those two elections are so different...
I'm sure evidence wouldn't help you decide either way, just trust your gut and run with it! Russia has zero hackers, and Trump would have won the popular vote if it wasn't for 3 million illegal votes lol.
Mexican gets a job picking tomatoes that Americans won't do for minimum wage or less? "We lost another American job!"
FTFY
We use metro-ethernet, OC3'S, satellite, and microwave to deliver program feeds to transmitters. I don't know of any professionals who do it over the Internet. I would never do it under any circumstances. I have no sympathy for anyone dumb enough to try it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Getting thrown off a flight once was not enough for you?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
This is not the "right" doing this. That's why there's the new world "alt-right". These are NOT your honest respectable Republicans we've had for so long. There is not just a left and the right in the US, that's just stereotyping people so yu don't have to think too hard. Donald Trump doesn't fit into that mold, he's not really left or right. He won the vote from people who are scared, not from people who have a long held well thought out political viewpoint, and he exploited that fear. The this happens with most politician's these days from every stripe, it is not unique to The Donald.
When you start splitting the country up into 50% on the one side of the political aisle who are good and honest people and 50% on the other side who are assholes, then you have stopped using your brain and have become a part of the problem. And as long as people continue feeling that way then we'll continue to have abysmal elections where our choices are between staunch bigot from party A versus staunch bigot from party B, and we get stuck again with deciding which is the lesser of two evils.
Why not look at it this way: Everyone is a giant selfish asshole. What makes society work is that we try to hide that base animal nature and pretend to be higher beings. The giant assholes on the left and the right need to learn how to live together or society stops working.
"Hackers" indeed. Suddenly everything is a hack. (insert roller blading hip cool teens)
This is just more evidence that the progressives are the real fascists here. A form of Reversed Fascism if you will. Violence and criminal behavior is BAD, but if its against trump and people that support him, its OK!
The Fuck Donald Trump song has lyrics like "I like white folks, but I don't like you" and "White people feel the same as my next of kin" in addition to the titular "Fuck Donald Trump." It isn't racist crap like what Rush Limbaugh was pushing, so your feeble attempt at drawing a comparison is completely off base.
Hackers do what you can to drive CHUMP into the dump! We need him gone !
How utterly pathetic the Left are. Can't they even DEBATE people they disagree with? Of course not, because they know they are wrong. Because most of the Left are parasites, leeching off hard working white people, that's why they're HERE, despite the fact that they continually claim white people are 'mean' to them... (i.e. 'racist'). Look at the Berkley RIOT (or 'protest', as the Jew media would have it) against Milo Yianoppoulos.
Sorry to bother you, but I think you dropped this bit of antisemitism while you were taking out your racism.
Stay classy, dissenters, stay classy...
Unlike slashdot, which has gone down the toilet.
Slashdot would have to crawl up to the toilet first...
Haven't heard of the song before...have to get the CD and then blast it in my car stereo with the windows rolled down. On second thought, I probably get shot by a gun-hugging, trigger happy alt-right Trumpist.
And yet only one side is burning down buildings and beating the shit out of opposition supporters, and it ain't the right. Hillary's insult wasn't really "deplorable", it was "irredeemable". That means most of America is permanently depraved by left-wing standards, and well obviously anything can be done to them, because that's what happens when you dehumanize people.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It was the basket. It was the being-thrown-away. It was always the basket. Trevor Noah, the man from South Africa who has Seen This Shit (tm) was absolutely correct.
He isnt wrong though. If youd bother to check who really owns the few media conglomerates out there youd know too.
Like how the right debates with gays before discriminating against them?
Or how they debate with pregnant women before denying them abortions?
A song denigrating someone because of what they are is different to one denigrating someone because of who they are. Especially if the former has to resort to dated, racist language... I can't believe you need this spelled out for you.
First of all, it's not the transmitter. It's the Barix network audio decoder. Audio is received by that and it's audio output is wired to the transmitter (exciter) or separate processor.
The people/entities that connect the Barix box directly to the internet probably wonder why their home pc/laptop is constantly bricked.
On top of all this, once that song was heard, whoever is responsible for that LPFM station should have taken it off air remotely.
I tend to wonder if that song was intentional played. Just the kind of thing some LPFM operators think they're entitled to broadcast. I've heard much the same locally. Rules don't apply when you're part of the special, protected class.
It kinda helps if there's only 4 listeners, anyway.
Well I don't know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you
Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
You can't handle the truth.
Don't bring facts into this discussion mate. The Bible is against abortions, PERIOD. And trump is a bible supporter to the T, he would never go against the Bible ever. Coincidentally, around their period is usually when woman get pregnant.
After what Obama did, can you blame them? Turns out, having a gay dude running the show, even with a tranny in his arms, just makes shit worse.
Sorry if it is so easy to stereotype people who are lacking in education.
You're a moron if you think only one side is doing this: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/11/10/us/post-election-hate-crimes-and-fears-trnd/index.html
Have you not paid attention? BOTH sides are bashing each other (although there are indeed more than two sides, they two dominant sides pretend that's all there is). People did not vote for Donald Trump because they thought Hillary had too much negative campaigning.
And rap still isn't music.