JD'S Memes

Now that we have new owners of our local
Los Angeles radio station I feel
able to share this bit of hacking history.
The revered hacker/consultant Kevin Mitnick was a Sunday morning
early am broadcaster on this local station.
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Following his trial, he was ordered not to operate any computer device.
This edict was difficult to achieve and/or monitor.
Allowed to publicize his "Show" on the station website, and
claiming this text was performed by a "Worker bee", not Kevin,
"Someone" started posting pron links on the radio website.
Well, that being said, does not provide proof, however after a
short time, Kevin was offered other employment options.
You may ask, WTF? how can you smear the beloved Kevin?
The station was owned by a large corporation that also owned
several theme parks. (Florida, Anaheim, Tokyo, and many others)
The "Talent" in those days were all effing around,
and this also irritated management. (One editor managed to obtain
nude photos from the theme park ride, Thunder Mountain.)
He then posted the pix on the web, the actual link on his site
was a single ".", making it obscure. It was a "Wild and Rugged time".
The sales team actually sold "Time" for a commercial for "Nipple Knit" cloth
for sewing clothes. Lasted one time.
Several "Talent" guys were all on the multiple wives tract.
Nothing wrong there.
I was involved with some obscure support, and spent a lot of time in the studio
assisting with whatever I could. About that time, the New York headquarters
decided to actually put up a website. I checked out the site, and it was
a typical "High School" student effort. I suspected they hired on price, not talent.
I browsed the entire site and downloaded what I could. (Because I could)
Eventually they figured it out.
I was also busy, and after a time, I drifted away from the station.
Once the station was sold, management decided to trim bloated payrolls.
This irritated long time "Talent" and some left with a bad taste.
East coast relay was cheaper the local talent.
One morning talent was making $29,000.00 a week and he was
also asked to retire.
I had so much fun in those years, but time marches on.
While I had many web sites up, today I'm down to less than 10.
I still fuss with computers, but that's a story for another cold beer.

 
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