Iraqi here *facepalm* again it's not a spooky cyber attack, it's the stupid way they operate these screens, they use anydesk and teamviewer to control them, they're hooked to windows machines and often times they show the desktop and user/password is displayed on the big screen
I was raised in Baghdad, I can assure you the person who set this up knows better, but didn’t care enough or didn’t think other people would know what teamviewer is or both.
I wonder how many times do these animated advertisement screens near roads or highways needs to be hacked in a similar way in order to make them disappear. Can they be problematic frequently enough to make the companies just get rid of them?
Talk about rapid incident response: they cut the power cable! (If it's a careful translation, presumably in contrast to just cutting the power.) It's interesting how priorities dictate whether or not physical damage is an acceptable way to fix a problem.
The hacker “showed a pornographic film for several minutes before we cut the power cable,” he said.
Ha! I suppose it had to happen eventually. I wonder how long it'll be before this meme spreads and the big boys in street advertising like JCDecaux become targets for hacking.
This is a part of the world where, in the worst cases, female children have their genitals mutilated in the name of religious tradition; and in the average case, adult women worry that if they don't bleed (from a ruptured hymen) during the first intercourse with their husband (who they probably didn't choose to marry), they will be accused of adultery and murdered (for which the murderer can legally be given a reduced sentence).
So looks like they got breached, wich might explain the Telegram drama, I was wondering why would they choose to specifically ban Telegram but not Signal or Whatsapp, tools of the mossad
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Here is a real life pic by a friend https://imgur.com/a/g0LB9vt
Wish it was as easy as installing an adblocker.
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Just take a look here under "Women’s Rights, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Morality Laws": https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/iraq
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I need to dig