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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.
Oh, get off your high horse long enough to smell what you're shovelling out of its rear end...
Remember when Obama was first elected? There was plenty of whining by the right then, and that coagulated into 8 solid years of purposely obstructionist deadlock and "no compromise" bullshit rhetoric.
The response to Trump is no worse. Which is surprising really, considering how the man has reset the scale when it comes to the awfulness of political candidates.
fuck white people.
If you try to turn it into a race thing, you will lose. We all will lose.
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...
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.