Tech
Radio stations hacked to broadcast explicit furry sex
by Jeremy Mersereau
April 8, 2016
Hackers broadcast furry sex talk across U.S. radio stations.
Listeners who tuned into KIFT, a Top 40 radio station in Breckenridge, Colorado on Tuesday morning heard a vastly different “Wild Things” broadcast than the one they were used to.
Instead of pop anthems, KIFT listeners got a solid 90 minutes of a podcast called FurCast, an explicit Internet program detailing the sexual proclivities of furries – people who are sexually attracted to anthropomorphized animal characters. No word if KIFT will be changing its call sign to YIFF.
“What we know at this time is that a Studio Transmitter Link for our station, which is Internet enabled, was hacked earlier today,” a statement on KIFT’s website says. “For approximately an hour and a half, programming from a podcast unrelated to our normal programming was broadcast on a booster of KIFT. We use industry standard closed systems for our STL and are unsure how this was able to happen.”
A “podcast unrelated to our normal programming” is a masterclass in understatement.
Incredibly, KIFT was just one of many radio station across the U.S. to be hit by the furry sex hack earlier this week: KXAX, a Livingston, Texas station also inadvertently broadcast FurCast material, and an AM station in Denver as well as an unidentified national syndicator were also affected. According to a post on RadioInsight, it appears the hacker or hackers managed to gain access to a number of Barix audio streaming devices by building a database of unsecured boxes through the Shodan search engine, and then caused the boxes to play the indecent FurCast material.
The furries themselves are apologetic about the incident, and blameless, at least in the matter of the hack and not, you know, life choices: on the FurCast website, they issue a statement saying they are “deeply sorry” for the incident and that after reviewing logs, they noticed a large number of IP addresses from the user agent “Barix Streaming Client” attempting to connect to their archive stream.
The FurCasters are “working with law enforcement to investigate this incident”, which is a scenario I can only imagine as a Barney Miller-esque situation comedy that I desperately want to see. “Detective, we need you to go undercover. Here’s your new uniform” *holds up blue wolf suit* Wait a second – didn’t CSI actually do this?
Anyway, you heard it here first: furries are taking over. First the hotels where Syrian refugees are staying, then the airwaves, then the people’s hearts. I hope our PM in 2078, Maximilian “Wolfheart” Trudeau, manages to keep his fursuits clean and avoid any mustard-stain embarrassments when speaking to foreign dignitaries. At least, I hope that’s mustard.
[h/t Ars Technica]
