Originally published at: Pranksters hack electric vehicle charging stations screens to display porn | Boing Boing
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Stick the charging cable into the power outlet, baby! That’s it…
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Maybe this is a good feature, after about 15 minutes of charging some people will suddenly feel kind of ashamed and need to leave.
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There’s an up-side to this, I just don’t know what it is.
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As long as the Pr0n only plays when you’re charging your vehicle, that seems to be a plus to owning an electric vehicle. Maybe this will drive up e-vehicle ownership?
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Benjamin Franklin claimed that electricity was fluid, and he was a notorious lech. Maybe he understood about non-binary way back when.
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OK, but can it run DOOM?
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I was about to say…
I can imagine this would be a common conversation:
“Do you need me to go charge the car?”
“You charged it two hours ago…”
“Yeah, but can I go charge it again?”
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In the old days (he said, with his ol’ codger voice) we’d pull up at a station and say things like:
“Gimme 5 bucks of Ethel.”
or
“Fill 'er up!”
and now . . .
I got nuthin’. No punchlines. Just memories.
Also - lube jobs. Just sayin’.
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Why is it always porn? Why not do old b/w tv shows or foreign music videos? Why not introduce a surreal element into people’s lives instead of plain old porn? I wish the creativity and thinking required to do the actual hacking also extended into the thought about the product that’s presented!
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One of our friends noted that some scoundrel(s) had reprogrammed all the fancy e-displays on refrigerators at Home Depot. They were supposed to be the easy wasy to order the food you were out of, but instead they were locked onto Pornhub.
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Maybe for the bragging rights? Putting something surreal on the screen, while infinitely more interesting, might not make the evening news. But porn? That’s a sure-fire way to make the six o’clock broadcast.
“I hacked the charging station screens.”
“Yeah, right.”
“Just watch the news tonight…”
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Isle of Wight? More like Isle of Wong.
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It was only a slight misunderstanding.
They were just showing the production plant of the electrical energy, as this Italian documentary from 1975 very well explains.
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‘Compelling local-interest narratives,’ are we not doing phrasing anymore?
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Pranksters hack electric vehicle charging stations…
Oh this sounds bad!
…screens to display porn
Oh okay nevermind.
For EV makers; This should drive up sales.
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