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  • 30 Years Later, The Max Headroom TV Hackers Remain At Large

    30 Years Later, The Max Headroom TV Hackers Remain At Large

    Bryan Menegus

    For 25 seconds in 1987, in the middle of WGN-TV anchor Dan Roan’s sportscast, thousands of Chicagoans’ feeds were replaced with a low analogue whine and the eery image of a masked man nodding over and over as if in a state of mania. “If you’re wondering what’s happened, so am I,” Roan said to…