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4chan hacks Deehubs electronic billboards

Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:10 pm
by L.G. Morgan
Deehubs is a billboard-like advertising service that broadcasts user-submitted messages on public spaces using light projectors. For the most part, these messages — and the photos of them on Deehub’s website and Facebook page — are positive, upbeat and encouraging.

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But then 4chan happened.
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On Friday, Seattle displays of company’s service were filled with submissions apparently supplied by members of 4chan’s notoriously vulgar and politically incorrect politics board, /pol/. It wasn’t a good look.

One message alluded to the shooting of African-American Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson and the protests that occurred after with the line, “Good bless officer Wilson #dindonuffin.” Other gems included Nazi slogans, the discrediting of the holocaust and its survivors, anti-African-American tropes, and, of course, conspiracy theories and anti-government comments.
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http://www.vocativ.com/usa/race/4chan-deehubs/

Re: 4chan hacks Deehubs electronic billboards

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:46 am
by R. Bryant
This would be an interesting nighttime alternative to banners.
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The Laser Tag setup, shown here loaded on an industrial utility trike for portability, resembles a DJ’s equipment. At the top, perched on its own case, is a 5000-lumen digital projector. The case rests on a 100-ampere marine deep-cycle battery and a power inverter for switching the cell’s dc power to the 120-volt ac required by the projector and the camera, which is mounted off to the cart’s left side.
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/soft ... r-graffiti