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Nuclear Explosion on Czech Morning Television - UPDATE

Via heise Security News.

The site of the Krkonose Mountains in Bohemia disappearing in a nuclear explosion yesterday (Sunday) morning, may have had some viewers of Czech public television channel CT2's breakfast show choking on their cornflakes. Happily, this turned out to be a stunt by a group of artists known as Ztohoven. They broke via the internet into a camera / camera server which provided images from the Krkonose Mountains as part of the morning panorama program. Skiers will be familiar with similar TV content - alternating images of camera pans from skiing areas accompanied by snow reports and temperatures.

According to media reports, Ztohoven fed a 30 second film which showed images of an atomic explosion and the group's web address. According to initial investigations by the Czech authorities, the CT2 network itself was not affected, the compromised camera server was operated by an outside contractor.

More here.

UPDATE: 06:38 PDT: Cory has a snippet over on Boing Boing, along with a link to a YouTube segment with the video. Sweet.

posted by Fergie @ 6/18/2007 06:26:00 AM