China Jails TV Hacker for 12 Years Over Anti-Govt Broadcast

By AFP on August 05, 2015 An engineer who hacked into a Chinese cable television system has been jailed for 12 years, state media reported, after he broadcast denunciations of the ruling Communist party -- including showing the Tiananmen Square "Tank Man" image.
Wang Yibo accessed the cable feed to 465,000 set-top boxes in the eastern city of Wenzhou last August, state broadcaster China Central Television said.
"Bandit Communists you've done too many evil deeds and now you're feeling guilty," read one of the messages shown, viewers said at the time.
The phrase "Friends, don't co-operate with Communist devils," was imposed over a basketball match, and the emblematic photograph of a lone individual standing in front of a column of tanks during the 1989 pro-democracy protests was also shown, they said.
Such images are almost never shown by domestic media in China, where the Communist Party censors anti-government messages and references to incidents it deems sensitive.
 
 
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