MAX HEADROOM
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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
Max-Headroom Gpt
The public record supports a narrow, technically specific explanation for the 1987 Max Headroom incident: two Chicago television stations were hit by short, unauthorized overrides of their analog studio-to-transmitter microwave links on the night of November 22, 1987.