An artistic group interfered with the Czech TV broadcast with fictitious nuclear explosion

Zuseher glauben an echten Atomangriff
http://www.orf.at/070617-13448/index.html

Hackers smuggle mushroom cloud into CT's live broadcasting

By Prague Daily Monitor/ČTK / Published 18 June 2007
Prague, June 17 (CTK) - The Ztohoven artistic group hacked into the Panorama morning programme of public Czech Television's CT2 channel with an image of a mushroom cloud with a reference to the group's web page.

Czech Television has already filed a criminal complaint against damaging intellectual rights and scare mongering. The police have started to investigate the case.

CT spokesman Martin Krafl told CTK that the group succeeded with the help of the internet and further technology to hack into a camera broadcasting live from the Krkonose (Giant) Mountains, east Bohemia.

Krafl stressed that broadcasting from CT's headquarters has not been affected. He said the camera into which the group hacked is operated by an external firm that cooperates with CT.

Krafl said Czech Television has already found out the owner of the internet address.

The perpetrators face one year in prison for their pirate spot lasting about 30 seconds, CT said.

Panorama is broadcast every morning, featuring many places in the country shot by panoramic cameras, and offering weather information.

Krafl said the programme is viewed by fewer than 50,000 people in this season of the year.

This has not been the first action by the controversial Ztohoven group. Its members also changed into a question mark the red neon heart by Jiri David that was installed at Prague Castle during the last days of Vaclav Havel's tenure as Czech president.

In 2003 they covered 800 advertising showcases in Prague's underground with white posters featuring a large black question mark and a reference to their internet pages.

One of the group members said they wanted to alert people to how advertisements "abuse our innermost desires, ideas and feelings in order to sell goods."

http://launch.praguemonitor.com/en/108/prague_news/8351/

17.6.07 (AFP)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070617-102648-1366r

http://www.gulli.com/news/fernsehhack-in-tschechien-
2007-06-18/

Info: - 17.6.2007 - Zuseher glauben an echten Atomangriff. Für Aufregung und Verwirrung hat am Sonntag in Tschechien eine Atomexplosion im Fernsehen gesorgt. Während der Sender mit Anrufen förmlich bombardiert wurde, stellte sich Sonntagmittag heraus, dass es sich um den Hack einer Künstlergruppe handelte. Die Gruppe Initiative Ztohoven hatte sich in das Programm gehackt und eine simulierte Atomexplosion eingespeist. (orf.at) Das erinnert irgendwie an die Vision von Albrecht Dürer in der Nacht 7. auf den 8. Juni 1525. Was er damals sah, hinterließ er uns als Bild und Text. Der dortige "Atompilz" ging östlich seiner Heimatstadt Nürnberg nieder, also in Böhmen, der heutigen tschechischen Republik. Die Nacht vom 7. auf den 8. Juni 1525 hat aufgrund der gregorianischen Kalenderreform den gleichen Sonnenstand wie die simulierte Atomexplosion im tschechischen TV. Die Aktion der Hacker war nichts anderes als die provozierte und unbewußte Vorwegnahme dessen, was unausweichlich kommen wird.

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(Oh, as a footnote, Isaac Newton saw this coming. In papers that are part of an exhibit in Jerusalem, Newton mused on Biblical issues and even calculated the date of the apocalypse. He had it at 2060, earliest, though when you factor in the margin of error -- about 18 years per century -- we're in range.)

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Hackers add explosive angle to weather broadcast
Wednesday Jun 20 14:00 AEST
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=274191

Artists hijack airwaves
http://www.variety.com/article/
VR1117967289.html?categoryId=19&cs=1

Že se videopirátům podařilo proniknout do vysílání veřejnoprávní televize (někdy nepřesně označované za „státní“) a že odvysílali záběry fiktivního atomového výbuchu, informovala celá řada zahraničních médií. Rozhodně tomu věnovala větší pozornost než jiným, nepochybně důležitějším událostem v Česku v poslední době.

První zprávy na zahraničních zpravodajských serverech zároveň obsahovaly noticku ve smyslu, že zatím není známo, jaký smysl či důvod akce má.

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V Česku ilegální vstup do vysílání proslavil pohádkový Rumburak. Ale podobné incidenty se dějí i v realitě, byť jsou poměrně ojedinělé. O těch nejzajímavějších ve světovém měřítku se píše mimo jiné i v hesle anglicky psané internetové encyklopedie Wikipedia. Detaily o „atomovém hřibu“ v Krkonoších se zde objevily ještě v neděli, tedy pár hodin po odvysílání záběrů.

Dokazuje to dvě věci: jak dobře tato encyklopedie tvořená internetovými uživateli funguje (informace o incidentu jsou zcela korektní a věcné) a jak zajímavá věc se lidem ze Ztohovenu podařila. Snese srovnání s jinými, dřívějšími incidenty, které se staly už svým způsobem legendami a o kterých už byly například i natočeny filmy.
http://www.lidovky.cz/rumburaci-v-televizi-05e-/ln_noviny.asp?c=A070620_000045_ln_noviny_sko&klic=219958&mes=070620_0

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Новости Чехов напугали ядерным взрывом в прямом эфире
http://www.newsru.com/world/18jun2007/ztohoven.html

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Eine englische Übersetzung des (offiziellen) Statements der Gruppe zur Aktion:

We are neither a terrorist organization nor a political group, our aim is not to intimidate the society or manipulate it, which is something we witness on daily basis both in real world and in the world created by the media. Whether the reasons are political interests, market interests, financial interests or interests of supranational companies – we meet hidden manipulation and attempt to invade the subconscious mind of citizens with specific products or ideology, using all available means. We do not think that a subtle distortion of such system or an appeal to pure common sense of people and their ability to remain unaffected are harmful, not even in a democratic society. That is why, several years ago, the art group “Ztohoven”? penetrated the public sphere of Prague, questioned the space given to advertisement generally and the space given to specific adverts. On the 17th of June 2007 this group attacked the space of TV broadcasting. It distorted it, questioned its truthfulness and its credibility. It drew attention to the possibility of using images of the world created by the media in place of the existing, real world.Is everything we see daily on our TV screens real? Is everything presented to us by the media, newspapers, television, Internet actually real? This is the concept our project would like to introduce and remind of. We believe that even the free space of public service broadcaster is able to endure such action and such impeachment. We hope our action will become an appeal for the future and remind the media of their duty to bring out the truth. Thank you for independent media and free space for our society

CNN: Hoax nuke blast seen on TV weather

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Members of a Czech art group who hacked into television broadcasting with images of a hoax nuclear explosion were charged and will have to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Thursday.
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A freeze-frame from the Web cam shows an image of a nuclear explosion.

The six members of the Prague-based Ztohoven group were charged last month with spreading false information and face up to three years in jail if convicted, said Dusan Ondracek, the state prosecutor in the northern town of Trutnov, who is in charge of the case.

The trial could begin by the end of January, Ondracek said.
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On June 17, viewers of a Czech television channel watching a Web cam program monitoring weather in various Czech mountain resorts could see a nuclear explosion taking place in the Krkonose or Giant Mountains in the northern Czech Republic.

In December, the project was awarded the NG 333 prize for young artists by Prague's National Gallery together with a cash prize of 333,000 koruna (US,350).