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The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking

Someone hijacked two Chicago TV stations in 1987 wearing a Max Headroom mask — and the FCC never found out who.

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The programming shortcut that could have caused real global chaos wasn't a hoax — it was a genuine bug that took a massive, coordinated, multi-billion-dollar fix to prevent, and it worked so well people later assumed it was never a real threat at all.

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