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Friday, January 22, 2010

Sex Sells


Impromptu porn billboard stops traffic
By REUTERS

MOSCOW - An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow on Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.

The owner of the advertising screen, which sits atop a main road about two km (1.2 miles) south of the Kremlin, told the state-run RIA news agency that hackers had broken into the screen’s computer system and turned on the porn.

“They were either acting out of hooliganism or were from a rival company,” Viktor Laptev, commercial director of advertising firm Panno.ru, told RIA.

A short clip showing cars slowing to a halt to look at the screen sprung up on youtube.com and internet sites on Friday across Russia, a country which banned nudity on television before the Soviet Union fell in 1991.

That's the drawback with technology. With neat new ideas like video billboards, you are open to hacker porn attacks. But at least this happened in Eastern Europe and not America. I imagine it went over a little bit better here. If it happened in the states someone's ass would be in a sling. But I imagine its going to happen soon, especially since the traffic signs in Austin were hacked to warn of zombie attacks. And porn on the road is dangerous. Just ask Eddie Griffin.

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