I have come across a few interesting videos of a guy called Max Cornelisse. Google hasn’t indexed much on him except for his youtube channel.
Even if these videos are fake, they are still pretty impressive. On several occasions, he hacks into public computer systems and displays content of his choice. In the last video below, he claims to use cell broadcasting to deliver SMS messages to all people in his immediate vicinity. After reading the wikipedia entry on cell broadcasting, it does appear that the infrastructure for this kind of hack is there; it might be possible.
I really hope that these videos are real, but I have a feeling that they are not.
Check out a few of his videos below, or his youtube channel.
What do you guys think? Is he for real?
Changing Signs at a toll booth.
Hacking big TV in a train station
Prank – Hacker at Utrecht Central Station – A funny movie is a click away
Sending SMSs to all people in vicinity
If he is for real, he’s pretty brave to have his face all over the place.
Wow, I dunno what to think. If they’re set up, it’s a pretty professional job, and if they’re genuine, he’s gunning for trouble. Although, it could be argued that he may save an international terrorist disaster by bringing to light the vulnerability of our communications systems. I would love to know if his pranks are the real deal or not ~ thanks for turning us onto them;-D
Man could this guy get himself in to a lot of trouble!!! If he isn’t already..sending a text message to a couple of girls is one thing..but fake cancellations of trains??/that is a bit much…
Damn – the SMS one is no longer available.
I could possibly see changing the signs on a toll booth, someone has to have access to put the numbers up in the first place, so if you some how managed to get the same access it wouldn’t be hard to change the text. The other stuff seemed like a bit much, although like you said SMS broadcasting is possible, but I would think it would be over a much larger area than a 25 meter radius. The phones can’t talk directly to each other, except over something like bluetooth, so it would have to come from the tower that they are all connected to, and they cover a lot more than he claims (unless it was a femto cell or something…) I know it Arabia guys try to pick up chicks by sending bluetooth messages in restaurants and coffee shops.
http://www.forbes-global.com/2006/02/13/arabian-diary-day-one-cx_daa_0213diary.html
I think he’s a fake.
Votes so far:
Real: 0
Undecided: 3
Fake: 1
I’m going with TS, I think that he is fake too.