Colorado-based radio station KIFT gets hacked; broadcasts furry porn for two hours

[Overwatch 7]

[quote=ArsTechnica]Some Tuesday morning listeners of KIFT, a Top 40 radio station located in Breckenridge, Colorado, were treated to a radically different programming menu than they were used to. Instead of the normal fare from Taylor Swift, The Chainsmokers, or other pop stars, a hack by an unknown party caused one of the station's signals to broadcast a sexually explicit podcast related to the erotic attraction to furry characters. The unauthorized broadcast lasted for about 90 minutes.

KIFT wasn't the only station to be hit by the hack. On the same day, Livingston, Texas-based country music station KXAX also broadcast raunchy furry-themed audio. And according to an article posted Wednesday by radio industry news site RadioInsight.com, the unauthorized broadcasts from a hobbyist group called FurCast were also forced on an unnamed station in Denver and an unidentified national syndicator.

"All in all the FurCast aired for an hour, possibly two," Jason Mclelland, owner and general manager of the KXAX Radio Group, wrote in an e-mail. "During that time they talked about sex with two guys and a girl in explicit details and rambled on with vulgar language not really having much of a point to the podcast. I'm assuming there was no real reason for this hack."[/quote]

[URL="http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/nation-wide-radio-station-hack-airs-hours-of-vulgar-furry-sex-ramblings/"]ArsTechnica[/URL]

We truly do live in a world of terror.

[PsychedelicLiz]

thank god it was only audio

[pentium]

This is what you did, Zootopia. You've unleashed a whole new generation of corrupting material.
This is your fault.

[sp]/sarcasm[/sp]

[notgeogzm]

audio-only furry porn?

i'm sickened but curious

[Shier]

[QUOTE=geogzm;50088774]audio-only furry porn?

i'm sickened but curious[/QUOTE]

Probably someone reading a furry 'novel' :v:

[JFF_]

If caught they should be sent to Guantanamo for terrorism.

[_jack]

the revolution will not be televised

[1legmidget]

A friend at Depauw University was involved with their radio station.

The guy after his shift was a no show, so my friend took it upon himself to play Low Rider for over an hour straight, only occasionally coming in to say "Hello, you're listening to the Low Rider hour". The no show got booted from the program.

[LoneWolf_Recon]

Anyone happen to have a source of said audio...? For research purposes, I assure you.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;50090043]Anyone happen to have a source of said audio...? For research purposes, I assure you.[/QUOTE]

It's a free podcast called furcast, right there in the article

Also the podcast owners tried to shut this down themselves because they noticed something unusual, but still this is pretty funny and slightly scary that they can tie into the radio over the internet

[pentium]

[QUOTE=Sableye;50090050]It's a free podcast called furcast, right there in the article

Also the podcast owners tried to shut this down themselves because they noticed something unusual, but still this is pretty funny and slightly scary that they can tie into the radio over the internet[/QUOTE]

Most radio stations are closely tied to the audio I/O on computers now.
Every so often when listening to CBC or the local AM station you can either hear, someone clicking clips and cues with a mouse or the rare Windows notification sound because whoever was at the mixing table left the PC line out hot. I seem to recall an incident a year or so ago where a station went on commercials and the DJ decided to surf porn, not realizing that the line was still hot while the commercials were cycling.

[editline]Mad Chatter[/editline]
[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9221401/Jazz-FM-broadcast-porn-over-airwaves-after-leaving-sound-fader-up.html]Got a source on that one.[/url]

[AlphaWeeaboo]

[QUOTE=pentium;50090194]Most radio stations are closely tied to the audio I/O on computers now.
Every so often when listening to CBC or the local AM station you can either hear, someone clicking clips and cues with a mouse or the rare Windows notification sound because whoever was at the mixing table left the PC line out hot. I seem to recall an incident a year or so ago where a station went on commercials and the DJ decided to surf porn, not realizing that the line was still hot while the commercials were cycling.

[editline]Mad Chatter[/editline]
[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9221401/Jazz-FM-broadcast-porn-over-airwaves-after-leaving-sound-fader-up.html]Got a source on that one.[/url][/QUOTE]
Yeah, a local college radio station in my town often has Facebook notifications going off in between songs.