[ISN] Hacker reveals plan to occupy airwaves

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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=8431876

By Dan Noyes
Chief Investigative Reporter
KGO-TV / ABC 7
November 14, 2011

The ABC7 News I-Team has discovered that some of the same people who 
launched the Occupy movement are now considering a plan to occupy the 
airwaves. By hijacking radio and television stations, they could create 
a nationwide panic.

The aim for these activists would be to broadcast their own message 
across the country. It sounds incredible, but after talking to the 
activists, to engineers and to those who oversee the broadcast industry, 
deep in the Sierra foothills, down a long country road, a computer 
expert's been working on a plan. Just call him "Jake."

"The potential is that you could hijack all radio and TV stations across 
the country," says Jake.

Jake calls himself a hacker. He has the t-shirt and a year and a half in 
federal prison to prove it. With the screen name "Secret Squirrel," Jake 
was convicted of "causing damage to a protected computer" -- hacking 
into his former employer's system -- but the conviction was reversed on 
appeal because of insufficient evidence.

His new project would exploit security gaps in the nation's Emergency 
Alert System or EAS.

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