Hundreds of thousands of viewers in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou have their Friday night viewing disrupted with images of tortured prisoners after hackers take over cable television channel
By Malcolm Moore
The revolution will be televised, at least in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, where hackers hijacked a cable channel during Friday's prime time.
For around ten minutes, viewers found every channel on their set-top box overlaying programmes with messages denouncing the Communist party, as well as images of tortured prisoners and of Tank Man, the lone dissenter who confronted a column of tanks in the wake of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
China Cable confirmed that a "malfunction" had hit some parts of the city and advised customers to take the smart cards out of their cable device and reset it.
According to its website, it beams cable television into four million households across six Chinese provinces.
One message called for the release of several prisoners of conscience, including the Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo and Wang Bingzhang, the pro-democracy activist.
Another showed support for Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement whose adherents have been persecuted since they demonstrated outside Zhongnanhai, the Communist party's leadership compound, in 1999.
A third even warned the audience to turn off their televisions. "Dear audience, do not watch too much television. It is all lies and self-congratulation by these ********. Television is the accomplice of the fatuous Communist party.
The local government responded quickly, putting out a statement that "lawbreakers" had "released malicious information". "Please make a distinction between right and wrong and do not spread these pictures or statements," it said.
As viewers took to Sina Weibo to ask what was going on, censors began deleting posts about the disruption and screenshots of hacked televisions.
Some Weibo accounts were temporarily suspended. The search term "Wenzhou TV station hacked" was blocked and initial media reports were scrubbed.
One message said the Anti-Communist Party Hackers were responsible, but the group denied to Foreign Policy magazine that it was behind the attack, saying only that it was the work of "friendly forces".
Source: The Daily Telegraph, August 2, 2014
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