Hacking the Airwaves

On the night of November 22, 1987, millions of viewers in Chicago were settling in to watch the news and an episode of Doctor Who. Suddenly, their screens went black. The broadcast was violently hijacked by a man wearing a creepy rubber mask of the pop-culture icon Max Headroom, speaking distorted gibberish while dancing erratically in front of a spinning piece of corrugated metal. This was the ...