Security researcher questions evidence of incident
2 Oct 31 2:56 AM · 11d ago · 2 posts · 1 source · development 2 of 2
A security researcher on Mastodon expressed skepticism about the incident, posting a comment seeking visual proof.
“Pictures or it didn't happen.”
bontchevHacking group (Leakers$) PerpetratorsEgypt's interior ministry Government responderArabian United Billboard operator
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch
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first by HN Frontpage, 11d ago · also CNN, CTV News
1 more headline
- Egyptian highway billboard hacked to show porn CNN · 9d ago
What people said 14 voices · verbatim
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Some societies need a good turning upside down.Egypt is one of them. There is value in most of the value being in the shock value. Egypt has already done the sorts of things you suggest. It doesn't work. Putting up porn actually makes a lot of sense from a decision matrix perspective here. First of all despite the pretense otherwise Egyptians…
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This keeps happening with connected displays — they ship with default logins, unpatched firmware, and a remote-management panel, then get left on the open internet for years. Same root cause as most IoT hacks. The attackers usually didn't crack strong encryption; they found an admin panel still on "admin/admin" or an unsecured control server. It's…
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This is so stupid. If you’re gonna hack billboards use the limited time it works to do some digital good. For example, queer rights are port Fucked in Egypt. Say the things people can’t normally say. https://www. cairoreport.org/p/egypt-brazil -iraq-billboard-hack
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> And you might say, "Not everyone wants to see ads!" And totally agree! But like, the people who have to look at this eyesore now have to deal with a different eyesore.That’s why across the world we should ban blanket advertisements like these. They’re a dumb eyesore.Porn just exposes what is obviously annoying. But advertisements themselves are…
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What’s the point? If you’re going to do that might as well just advertise something for free instead
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Pictures or it didn't happen. "Egyptian highway billboard hacked to show porn": https:// lite.cnn.com/2026/10/30/middle east/egyptian-highway-billboard-hacked-porn-intl-scli
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Kind of a shitty choice. Like, I'm very much sex positive, but not everyone wants to see porn.And you might say, "Not everyone wants to see ads!" And totally agree! But like, the people who have to look at this eyesore now have to deal with a different eyesore.Why not, "This garbage ad remived from your view by hacking group X, you're welcome" and…
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these hackers are most likely childless incels, no sane adult person would show such content in public setting where some 5yo can set it from car, and I have zero problem with porndisclaimer - I enjoy porn almost on daily occasion and I have no problem with nudity, but porn certainly doesn't show natural human behavior which should be shown to…
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I guess this is done simply to grab as much of people's attention as possible. And I mean all groups of people:– for observers on the road, make them more likely to film this and share on social media;– for news agencies, make them allocate as much coverage as possible for this incident;– for regular readers, simply to more likely grab theirs…
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An outside advertisement display in Finland was defaced recently with a certain well known image from early internet: (warning article includes blurred version of the image)
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Generally agree. However, I wonder if their intent was to draw attention to women's rights, or antagonize people regarding women's rights, in those nations. Porn was the wrong choice. Instead of pet photos, they could have shown women in positions of power and not wearing tradional clothes.
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I've always wondered what these electronic billboards run on. Obviously I'm not going to cut one down and bring it home to study nor will I impersonate a customer to get one, so I'll never find out, but it's cool someone did manage to hack one.
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This is hilarious and harmless. Who cares?I find it far more offensive that you wouldn't even be able to post this headline without self-censoring in the major social media apps for fear of The Algorithm. How far the internet has fallen.
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How uncreative.Nothing against porn, but given a platform that's what you pick to blast into the world?
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