Hackers place Pirate Bay advert on digital billboard

In what is being claimed as a move to show how little interest people have in digital security, a group of hackers has placed an advert for The Pirate Bay on a billboard in the middle of Republic Square, Belgrade – the capital of Serbia.

Having hacked into the system, the few responsible performed a few stunts, such as playing Space invaders on it from their phones, displaying several amusing messages including one alongside the famous Pirate Bay logo: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO_o8casdhs']

TorrentFreak spoke with the students responsible, who said: “When we started with this hobby, we noticed that a large number of computer systems are very poorly protected or even have no protection at all from some very common attacks that hackers usually use.”

“In a world where information is freely available, it is easy to learn just about anything, including “how to hack.” We therefore feel that awareness needs to be raised about this general disregard for computer security,” they added.

Supporting the Pirate Bay was logical for the students, who believe it represents a “free, apolitical, independent, worldwide organisation,” that supports the kind of ideals that they do.

KitGuru Says: Gotta admit when Voodoo People starting kicking in during that video, I got hyped. Reminds me of hackers. A fine choice of soundtrack for these students.

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