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Tue, 2nd December 2008
Clear Channel: Digital Billboards Rented, Not Hacked
The Los Angeles street creator famous as Skullphone managed to intend his iconic skull-holding-a-cellphone ikon to pass on 10 striking digital billboards throughout Los Angeles terminal hebdomad — directive whatever blogs to report that he’d hacked into the signs.
Alas, Clear Channel Outdoors, which owns the billboards, says no. “He paying to intend it up,” says spokeswoman Jennifer Gery. “It exclusive ran for digit days.”
Update: Clear Channel’s Tony Alwin is sorry most the hacking rumors. “The advertizing was bought low the hypothesis that it was prowess that was in an prowess show,” he says. “Any claims most hacking into our systems is false. It’s a lie, even.”
Melted From: Wired: Threat Level
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