Hacked Digital Billboards
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Someone known as Skullphone has hacked into a few ClearChannel billboards in California to insert the trademark image.
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2 comments: Responses to “ Hacked Digital Billboards ”
By Anonymous on 30/3/08 11:56 PM
You might want to update this, as it turns out it wasn't really a hack. The whole thing was paid for. And look at all the publicity it garnered :D
By Anonymous on 31/3/08 4:29 PM
yeah not nearly as cool, since he had to pay for it, kinda like buying a new system and getting a refurb (rox0rz!)