Harper Eats Babies
I wonder how many readers caught a hold off this last week? Go transit has profusely apologized for the incident since but makes you wonder how vulnerable most of these electronic displays are and whether or not there is any security on them at all, especially in places such as Yonge and Dundas square.
Gerry Nicholls thought he was hallucinating as he kicked back in his seat to take the 35-minute GO train ride to his Oakville home.
About every three seconds, the scrolling electronic sign that usually carries transit updates and advertisements had a very different message that he just could not keep his eyes off.
“Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies,” the message kept repeating.
“No one (in the car) seemed to be reacting to it,” said Nicholls, who happens to be vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, the same conservative think-tank formerly headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “You go home and you are trying to rest from work and all of a sudden where they usually talk about Ticketmaster, all of a sudden you see this thing say `Stephen Harper Eats Babies. I wasn’t even sure when I got off the train. Was I hallucinating?” Turns out he wasn’t.
An ingenious hacker, who boarded the Lakeshore GO Transit westbound train, made sure that on Thursday, Friday and yesterday, suburban commuters in at least five different cars continued to get his or her subliminal message…
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