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[mystery] MuchMusic hacked? Phreak615?

**Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:31 pm

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kosmopol

It reminds me a little on Wyoming Incident.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:32 pm

redct · Entrenched Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233

I'm putting my money on marketing. If there was an actual broadcast hijack, the communications regulations would be all over the place.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:33 pm

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thebruce

yeah Mad Morton mentioned that little caveat in his blog.

And WI - I think that's close, but the one I'm thinking of was a guy who supposedly inserted his own video in CBS or CBC or some other network broadcast some time back... dunno. maybe this is kind of a mix inspired by both Razz

or, did WI refer to that broadcast hijack guy? I think that was it... I think I recall people mentioning that hijack in the WI thread.
Anyway... yeah... along those lines

**Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:39 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:41 pm

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A Muchmusic ARG would be fun. *crosses fingers*

**Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:12 pm

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This looks interesting. Very Happy

**Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:54 pm

Nighthawk

You know, this hacking is now mentioned at the bottom to the Wikipedia entry for "viral marketing":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing

**Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:27 am

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New video on his site http://phreak615.blogspot.com/2008/04/fly-coop.html

**Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:21 pm

thebruce

there are some frames that aren't just effective noise... but text can't be made out. captured 10 frames, here are 3...

**Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:02 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:36 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:39 pm

thebruce

the blog feed as a link to an MP4 attachment which is higher quality, but the text is still too obscured.

http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=adbae7205c113583&type=video/mp4

**Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:07 pm

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heh, article on canoe.ca

someone's not too happy Razz

~~what I found kind of funny is that he's berating MM for considering its fans dumb, when he describes the email he received:~~

Quote:

Even an e-mail that Phreak615 says was sent out to Much staffers is obviously fake. Note the "Memo to all staff" salutation underlined in green � that's Microsoft Office's built-in grammar checker flagging a sentence fragment, and a dead giveaway that the e-mail in that image was composed in the window shown, not received by the user.

The email:

Clearly he doesn't understand outlook . The green underline didn't come with the email he received (which is plain text), it was added because he's reading the email in Outlook.
doof. no offense.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:40 am

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wow triple post...

so there's been some back-and-forth on the main blog article reporting this, with this matsuto77 person (who has changed his name to Mad Mark)

he's still in it, and phreak615 still sees to be 'picking' on him for some reason. The latest blog entry of Phreak615 - Book Smarts has this image of a book with missing letters... which obviously spells "ebay"

A quick search will result in Phreak615's profile on ebay where he has a listing "Phreakin it Real".
Nothing for sale, but there are two images:

They appear to potentially be the blueprints for this year's MMVA stage.
Last year's stage appears similar in design, and can be seen here.

thats pretty much it so far...

**Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:01 pm

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