Hacker-artists can face three years in prison for fake nuclear blast on live TV

On June 17th last year Czech artistic group ZTOHOVEN (a pun meaning “out of it” when read or “a hundred turds” when spoken) interfered with Czech TV broadcast which innocently showed the weather, and altered the broadcast to show a “live” nuclear explosion. They simply hooked up their camera to the weathercast-camera and in real time broadcast their own shots, which showed nuclear explosion. The results seen below, were quite convincing. This was the art groups creative (and rather techie clever) way of warning about media manipulation.

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