Iraqi government turns off electronic billboards after they were hacked to show porn

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Iraqi government turns off electronic billboards after they were hacked to show porn | Boing Boing

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[anon52120741]

@beschizza

If you’re wondering how things are generally going in the land of liberated hearts and minds, the word “gender” is now banned from public platforms there.

[smut_clyde]

@beschizza

Sadly, there appear to be no photos of the porn.

We could use our imaginations, I suppose, but if people had imaginations then we wouldn’t need porn.

[anon52120741]

Username checks out

[robjordan6]

Pfff…kids these days and their electronic billboards and their hacking. Back in my day you had to work to come up with a sufficiently ribald anagram of the letters available. And then rearrange the letters yourself.

(Pro tip: work calmly and deliberately, act like you’re just doing your job, and walk away at a normal pace.)

[BraunKommando]

With that display technology the porn was probably a picture of the Mooninites giving the finger.

[Shuck]

@beschizza

Sadly, there appear to be no photos of the porn.

I was imagining the p0rn was on one of these:

and was trying to imagine how well that’d work*, but I realized it was likely a full-color video billboard. Which makes more sense.

*Though I have a pretty fair idea, thinking back to those computer conventions I went to in the '80s where vendors were selling dot-matrix-printed centerfolds (that might also have been ascii art).

@beschizza

If you’re wondering how things are generally going in the land of liberated hearts and minds, the word “gender” is now banned from public platforms there.

And this is different from Florida, how?

[robertmckenna]

We haven’t liberated Florida…. Yet.

[euansmith]

@Shuck

and was trying to imagine how well that’d work

[allenk]