Max Headroom
The events of November 22, 1987, represent a watershed moment in the history of telecommunications security, marking the most sophisticated and successful unauthorized bypass of major television broadcast infrastructure in the United States.[1, 2] On that Sunday evening, two television stations in the Chicago market—WGN-TV (Channel 9) and WTTW (Channel 11)—were the victims of a coordinated broadcast signal intrusion.[1, 3] The perpetrator, masked as the digital character Max Headroom, utilized a deep understanding of analog microwave relay systems to overpower the legitimate signals of these s
the chicago broadcasting environment of 1987the security response at wgn-tvcontent analysis of the wttw pirate segmenttechnical analysis: overpowering the signalthe studio-to-transmitter link (stl) mechanism
