PBX Hacking Featured on ABS-CBN’s XXX
Want to get entertained by a n00b? Tune to ABS-CBN.
Updates after the show. The show ended around 21.45.
Before I go ahead, the following are just my opinions or assumptions. They may sound allegations and accusations (don’t sue me for libel, I have no money). Feel free to correct me.
I didn’t get to capture the show because my retarded brother was using the desktop. I was downstairs, marauding our freezer and cupboards when I overheard “hacker” from the telly.
The introduction showed how the hackers do it. They explained a couple of 1337 jargons and expanded abbreviations. They show the damages, figures and the victim, AT&T. The “hackers” are alleged to be from the Philippines who stole access codes to various AT&T corporate clients.
AT&T sent some guy to be interviewed and make the show more interesting. He was showing some slides from the 90’s explaining how PBXs work while the host pretended to listen attentively. They reported that AT&T sent their suspected attacker’s to NBI and another law enforcement organization with a crummy looking building.
They also found another guy they probably paid 50 bucks to read a script and pretend to know how to use a computer. They called this guy Agent XXX. Such a scary screen name, it made me cry in pain (oh wait, I poured too much alcohol on an open wound).
Agent XXX was showing a map that was edited with MS Paint. Who couldn’t tell? They airbrushed a path from somewhere to the suspect’s house. Then at one street, there’s a box which they highlighted as the target. MS Paint is the new GPS. So original. So cool. There’s nothing like it. I have to commend them for the effort.
Bob, the guy from AT&T (not his real name), said that they got to track the leader of this “syndicate” who is the middle man for the foreign contacts (known as the “financiers”) and the Filipinoy PBX “hackers”. The middle man is a Romanian (or was he from Jordan) and lives in BF Homes Parañaque.
What’s so funny is Bob was giving an I-shouldn’t-be-here look when he was included in the planning of the ambush arrest of the middle man. What’s weirder is that they brought cops in full battle gear with big guns. They described cyber-terrorism but what they didn’t know was that this tech “syndicate” barely even had security guards.
They caught two alleged “hackers” where they showed the confiscated analog phones. The phones were claimed as tools used to “hack” PBXs for access codes. Are they even sure what they were talking about?
The CG effects are great though. The intro, credits, and cutscenes are fantastic (and I’m not being sarcastic on this point).
I thought that local television is dead but it turns out that there’s still a good source of entertainment. This show is even funnier than Home Along Da Riles! I’m definitely watching this next week.
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