The text recounts various instances of live broadcasts being hacked or used to transmit secret messages. Highlights include:
1. Bas Welling hacking the teleprompter of Dutch TV program Editie NL.
2. Anonymous hacking Fox News during a live interview.
3. A warning message on WSB TV advising against using Johnson Ferry due to traffic delays.
4. The use of number stations by various countries for espionage, with examples like the Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Fox News Ticker Hack, and North Korean Radio.
5. The Pip, a shortwave radio station believed to be part of a larger communication network.
6. The HM01 Cuban numbers station transmitting coded messages.
7. The ENIGMA – Station X, where codebreakers worked during WWII to decipher enemy communications.
The summary concludes with an incident in 1983 where Joe Gwin took over a KOOL-TV broadcast in Phoenix, Arizona, with a 12-page statement he believed would save the world. Anchorman Bill Close read the statement on air before Gwin was taken into custody.
1. A YouTuber named Bas Welling claimed to have hacked the teleprompter of a Dutch television program called Editie NL.
2. Bas Welling changed the text live on the autocue, which the anchors read on camera.
3. The hack occurred while the anchors were reporting on a "fish fraud case" with 26 convictions.
4. One of the anchors noticed something was wrong with the autocue and called out the person responsible.
5. The hack was posted to YouTube by Bas Welling.
6. In 2015, a video was posted to YouTube claiming that hacktivists, Anonymous, hacked Fox News live on air.
7. The hack occurred during Dr. Jack Kevorkian's first live national TV interview on Fox News.
8. An Anonymous representative appeared on screen, accusing Fox News of promoting fear and corporate interests.
9. Anonymous also accused Fox News of participating in an orchestrated attempt to misinform the public.
10. The hack ended with a statement that Fox News is against the people.
11. A secret message was posted on WSB TV, warning viewers not to get on Johnson Ferry.
12. The warning was given due to a traffic jam on Johnson Ferry, which caused delays for several hours.
13. A numbers station called "Swedish Rhapsody No. 1" was used by Polish intelligence to broadcast coded messages.
14. The station used a young girl's voice to transmit the messages.
15. The station was monitored, and some of the codes were cracked.
16. A Fox News ticker hack occurred, displaying a message that claimed the American people were being lied to.
17. The hack accused "Rightwingers" of knocking out unions and destroying the middle class.
18. The hack also claimed that America is the richest country in the world and that there will be an uprising.
19. North Korea's state radio station was accused of broadcasting number codes to its spies.
20. The codes were likely used to communicate with spies embedded in the West.
21. A numbers station called "The Lincolnshire Poacher" was used by the British Secret Intelligence Service.
22. The station used a British female voice to read groups of numbers in fives.
23. The codes were likely used to communicate with spies in various countries.
24. A Fox News hack occurred, displaying an image of Elliot Alderson from the TV series Mr. Robot.
25. The hack was likely targeted at Greta Van Susteren, who is a Scientologist.
26. A numbers station called "The Pip" broadcasts brief regular beeps at about 50 a minute.
27. The station is believed to be of Russian origin.
28. A Cuban numbers station called "HM01" uses a one-time pad to encode its messages.
29. The station is believed to be operated by the Cuban intelligence directorate.
30. A UK-based codebreaking center called "ENIGMA - Station X" was used to break German Enigma and Lorenze ciphers during World War II.
31. The center was staffed by around 10,000 people, including codebreakers and analysts.
32. One of the most successful cryptologists at the center was Alan Turing.
33. A news studio was taken over by a man named Joe Gwin, who demanded to be put on the air.
34. Gwin took a production assistant and camerawoman captive and demanded that his 12-page statement be read on air.
35. The statement was read by the anchorman, Bill Close, while Gwin sat in silence.
36. The incident lasted for almost five hours before Gwin was taken into custody.