The BBC is HACKED Live On Air

[@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.]

This is the first instance of _'chat'_ messing with a streamer

[@user-dc4xo7zl6x]

He didn’t knew. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sheevpalps66]

Jerma935

[@michaelpalacio5]

@@sheevpalps66This is proof that we aren’t supposed to be doing this. We should be putting logs in a wheelbarrow and bringing them to the town

[@MATT.04]

The way this interaction is going is actually surprisingly similar to that. I wpuld expect telly people to take this kind of stuff way more seriously, and really be angry, stressing, panicking, and possibly even interrupting the broadcast. They tend yo be quite tight with these sorta things. But them just having a play with it is awesome

[@phantommyst1933]

😭

[@TanMann23]

Putting a hacking song into someone’s computer you’re hacking right before their eyes is one of the funniest things ever

[@RubelliteFae]

Having a hacking song is one of the most British things ever Right up there with Douglas Adams & Monty Python

[@baranjan6969]

​@@RubelliteFae May I interest you in the song "write in C"?

[@totally_not_a_bot]

Cool PSA. "Choose better passwords guys. This is a demonstration of why."

[@FlorianWendelborn]

This seems more like a demonstration of a man-in-the-middle attack, for which it doesn't matter at all how good the password is. They thanked the BBC for entering the real password

[@CantTellYou]

I wanna meet that NutCracker

[@TimmyTam]

Casually invented the live chat

[@sazokuotsutsuki8848]

they actually are the first to live chat loooooool

[@iamhugry]

LMAO

[@Haveuseenmyjetpack]

Casually copying the comment from 3 days prior

[@bobbobert9379]

It's the wall command or something similar, which allows users to send a message to all other users logged in on the same system.

[@maruftim]

​@@Haveuseenmyjetpackto be fair that comment didn't mention about the chat which is kinda a miss

[@mr_redstone6699]

The way bro just said "just go away were demostrating something here" 😂😂

[@iamhugry]

Avg twitch viewer interacting with the streamer

[@sparklelikeaghost]

The bro bro just brod "bro go bro were broing bro thing bro" 🧒🧒

[@thisguyhd6591]

We're*

[@Kroooza]

​@@sparklelikeaghostfr I hate my generation

[@ballscock9280]

Is it really that hard to go back and find the exact quote?

[@WilburJaywright]

And just like that, the live stream was invented

[@JerryGarciaPOBox]

👍🏻

[@digantadutta2143]

bro got stream sniped

[@XunYunXiao]

Best comment 😂

[@XunYunXiao]

Lol that is perfect comment 😂 👌

[@kreuner11]

Wdym

[@MikeBehrensWX]

3 keystrokes. BBC program. I bet BBC was their password.

[@HonestAuntyElle]

Owl?

[@Leo-sd3jt]

The funniest thing is when you see somebody type in their username and you hear them typing and when they put in their password the typing pattern sounds identical to when the username is typed

[@TianyuQi]

​talking about that reminds me of seeing some article about spywares using microphone and ai to hear typing on the phone and map it to keys@@Leo-sd3jt

[@Kasper_K]

123

[@-TAPnRACK-]

Yoy can tell by the speed it was 3 different keystrokes so most likely it was OWL especially when you compare the speed of typing to where OWL is on the keyboard it matches up pretty well.

[@ArkayeCh]

He gets hacked live and his reaction is like shooing some stray cats lol

[@nathanstein589]

Bruh what 💀

[@victorviereck6476]

Most hackers I know are exactly like stray cats .

[@MarioGoatse]

@@nathanstein589Ayo bruh what he be saying 💀 Why he be saying word too hard for us read bruh 💀

[@CaymenLeP]

@@MarioGoatsewhat are you two on about

[@_zoid]

@@MarioGoatseof all the pfps I have seen, that is definitely.. one of them. The N64 had more detailed graphics than I remember

[@dennis8196]

For context. This was an early BBS like system. The default password for everyone was 1234 (and fixed to 4 numeric digits) and almost no one changed their passwords. There was no prompts to do so, no reminders and unless you could be bothered to look around for an option to change it you wouldn't even know you could. This is how Prince Philips mailbox was routinely read and 2 people were arrested for it, but it wasn't actually illegal at the time.

[@gownerjones]

But here, you can hear only 3 keystrokes, one of which must have been the enter button, so their password was only 2 characters long. Even in a brute force attempt, they only had to try 16k combinations.

[@androgynousblob4835]

@@gownerjonescomputers were also much less powerful then though, i feel like it still would have taken quite some time?

[@gownerjones]

@@androgynousblob4835 Oh absolutely not. Even back then, computers did millions of operations per second. It may have taken a few seconds considering networking times and maybe a bulky algorithm.

[@theotherwalt]

If you remember BBS, the Citadel86 didn't use a username, only a password, which was stored in plain text. If you typed someone else's password, you were in. You might be interested in the book, "The Cuckoo's Egg" It was Cold War hacking into USA government computers. You are correct, people kept the default passwords for root access.

[@gownerjones]

@@androgynousblob4835 Even back then, computers did millions of operations a second.

[@siydge]

Hackers in the early days just wanted to have a good laugh, not to cause major harm

[@cisarovnajosefina4525]

There wasnt much harm to be done as most companies and goverments weren't digital

[@someguy4512]

@@cisarovnajosefina4525 they kind of where, especially at that time

[@lukeherbst7931]

Hacking was much more low risk back then. No sense in spending days or weeks trying to crack a system for a practical joke now when it could land you a felony

[@Justnothankyou132]

Wrong and dumb

[@CatgirlExplise6039]

@@someguy4512 Their exploitative and disgusting in-human measures werent online at the time, nowadays. they are, theyll just have you raped if you mess with them. America c:

[@agent0422]

"Chat, this is serious, stop messing around. I don't wanna make it emoji-only but I will if I have to"

[@avantcdmx2028]

'Security is a myth': bugcon

[@The_Divergent]

Privacy void

[@nogitsunegaming]

Humans are flawed creatures and thus by definition any system created by humans will be equally flawed.

[@dsandoval9396]

No, it's not. You can implement security, that's a fact. It's also a fact nothing is 100% _secure._ There is absolutely a difference.

[@avantcdmx2028]

@@dsandoval9396 i guess u got it.

[@paulgreengod]

​@@slink4956it is. You're never safe.

[@JoJoGaminG36]

I like how chill everyone was back then. No big fuzz about it or big security measurements. Just a good laugh for the moderators and the hackers.

[@Chicky_Lumps]

Ah, the good old days before mod abuse.

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

They all went home and beat their wives😂

[@lewisguapo]

Livestream and live chat invented in the same day without knowing... 😂

[@NotGarbageLoops]

During password entry I hear three keystrokes. This thing was connected to a phone line? No wonder they got hacked.

[@davak72]

He said he connected it to a modem

[@NotGarbageLoops]

@@davak72 For that era, it's synonymous. Modems didn't work without phone lines. In fact, if you picked up a second phone on the same line while a modem was busy, you'd actually hear the digital screetching.

[@davak72]

@@NotGarbageLoops I misread your comment haha. I didn’t realize your question was rhetorical so I was answering yes

[@NotGarbageLoops]

@@davak72 Oh, lol - I actually read your comment incorrectly as well XD

[@CreativityNull]

The most polite argument over a misunderstanding I've seen on the Internet in awhile.

[@labbit35]

“Try his first wife’s maiden name” 💀

[@SneefyQuaffles]

Shooing away a hacker is extremely british

[@ThePunkRockNerd]

They just want to say hi

[@hypercookie1331]

hi

[@ThePunkRockNerd]

@@hypercookie1331 hi

[@rennoc6478]

@@hypercookie1331hi

[@Leotv19]

@@ThePunkRockNerdhi

[@John17TheOGmp4]

​@@Leotv19hi

[@SNEAKERCREWCLUB]

Polite hackers 😂

[@portalpony477]

Tbh most are 😂 Nothing like a kind message saying wire $1000 or your CPU goes bye bye

[@jonathanjoestar9317]

*Random American dude hacking cartoon network just to put the best scene in cod history"

[@azeraxosu3051]

Please be real 😂

[@DatsiKxModz]

It is and amazing. It was on gumball

[@flappyjay_gaming]

​@@DatsiKxModzsauce?

[@Benjamoose]

"I'm now telling the computer *_exactly_* what it could do with a lifetime supply of chocolate."

[@imark7777777]

Now that's a reference!

[@K1LLERP]

😂😂 👍 now I ask my phone 📱

[@hubertbreidenbach]

Lol I'm 51 and saw this broadcast live on "Micro Live". Ian McNaught-Davis was a class act.

[@watcherofthingsthatrkekano5930]

An a legend was born of Lord NutCracker.

[@RK36_]

Now imagine how much chaos there would be if everything was still connected to landline

[@TeknoJoe23]

It basically still is

[@basedmod2139]

In which way do you think there's a difference?

[@juanletsplay1550]

Forget photobomb, that's a photohack

[@lunchbox1553]

I don't think you understand that word

[@CatgirlExplise6039]

@@lunchbox1553 I mean it kinda makes sense, forcing yourself into being interrupted in a form of media is what happens in both of those situations,

[@lunchbox1553]

@@CatgirlExplise6039 I was talking about the failure to swap out the correct base word. It's not a photo.

[@CatgirlExplise6039]

@@lunchbox1553 ohhh I get it now

[@wiggy8912]

That’s what a 2 character password will get ya 😂

[@go4sens600]

The most “a light” hacking i have ever seen

[@AiOinc1]

This is what hackers used to be

[@KaiusKC]

The same thing happened to gangsters smh

[@HippieInHeart]

@@KaiusKC Nah, gangsters were always pretty brutal in most cases. All those movies about mafia and whatever else are highly romanticized and don't really show a lot of the ruthless cruelty that was going on at the time. Also, the reason why hackers used to be much more chill and laid back is probably the fact that, first, there wasn't really as much damage to be done back then because corporations and governments didn't rely on computers and internet as much as they do nowadays, and second, hacking often wasn't as dangerous as it is today. Cybersecurity also improved a lot since back then, so hacking is often a lot more difficult too.

[@pacevy3798]

@@HippieInHeartthat an it’s a lot more penalized now, even if it’s just a practical joke you can still get a felony charge now

[@HippieInHeart]

@@pacevy3798 Yeah that's what I meant when I said its dangerous. Back then there weren't really a lot of laws against hacking. Like, if a hacker actually pissed off a large corporation, sure they'd find some loophole somewhere to ruin his life, but for the most part just playing a little prank on someone would go largely unpunished. Nowadays, if someone hacks into anything for any reason they'll most likely go to prison.

[@RobCCTV]

I so fondly remember that program. When I ordered my BBC computer, I counted every second of the many months it took to arrive.

[@JoaoPedro-ki7ct]

How many months it took?

[@RobCCTV]

@@JoaoPedro-ki7ct About a year.

[@tabitharosefreeman1793]

@@RobCCTV a year 😂

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Don't make your password "that" and say it out loud while typing it in! 😂

[@mattwinstanley2544]

I think by “that” he meant “that password”, which could have been any password. Although he probably did input his wife’s maiden name 😂

[@ElskerSovs69_]

@@mattwinstanley2544wooosh

[@JasonW1220]

@@mattwinstanley2544you don’t say

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

@@mattwinstanley2544 yah, I was just trying to be funny 😂

[@fafflerproductions]

People dont realize that a majority of hacking is just social engineering or finding a password from someone to get access to everything

[@TymexComputing]

In fact it is "cracking" not hacking - i will be reminding this usenet truth till the end of my life...

[@banananananaie]

I guess you don't realise that the majority of hacking is NOT social engineering, that's just a division of hacking, and while it can be used to hack into anything, a lot can also be done by simply finding vulnerabilities in outdated software, or even 0days in up-to-date software, there is also brute forcing. And like the reply that is above me already says, it is cracking and it's one of the least technologically skilled methods of hacking too.

[@fafflerproductions]

@@banananananaie my guy, cracking is a form of hacking. And I'm saying people don't realize that social engineering is more commonplace than you think. Phishin is a great example. And one of the most commonplace ways to hack

[@fafflerproductions]

@@banananananaie oh also you're both just straight up wrong about hacking vs cracking. Every definition says something along the lines of "Hackers are good people who hack devices and systems with good intentions. They might hack a system for a specified purpose or for obtaining more knowledge out of it. Crackers are people who hack a system by breaking into it and violating it with some bad intentions." So they're functionally the same, it's about intent. Did you even look up hacking vs cracking? Cuz it makes it pretty apparent that they're essentially the same methodology Hacking is a term for white hat hacking, cracking is a term for black hat hacking

[@mrbananapsychooo]

This is so true, I worked at a phone repair store once and this customer needed an urgent screen replacement on his iPad, paid extra and left didn't fill in the pin number in the repair job sheet to test out the screen etc, as soon as I turned it on and It asked for a long pin, So sales were calling and calling since he said it was urgent and fixed within 3hrs... I got the idea and just put in his phone number... It was the first 6 digits and voila it unlocked. Most people's lock screen are their year of birth, day and month or repetition of numbers or 1234. EVERYONE of my friends that I asked when being a car drive dj to unlock it was their DOB. Like 10 of them. My ex's as well. Hardest ones to predict was a buddy's DOB in reverse and another one his ID number which isn't known by others except like parents (where I'm from it's 6 digits 1 character, I know my mum dad and sisters ID, phones and DOB. Guess what I asked I can unlock their shit without asking anything.. it was their year of birth for 3 of them . Others use wedding or important dates or pet names. Things and numbers familiar to them. It's honestly so easy to bypass this stuff if you know basic things about the person to open... I did it with a stranger's tablet...

[@iamhugry]

Bro was such a fan he did a twitch dono by hacking them

[@Drayson_scalie]

That's actually perfect for the demonstration, showing the security vulnerabilities that come with connecting to a network

[@Australian_Made]

That's hilarious

[@Mistwolfss]

The three "bots?" are hilarious. The video was funny as well

[@Quotethe]

I really liked when hacking and viruses sort of had a practical joke element to the rather than just being destructive and malicious

[@michellemcdaid9824]

"Your computer is stoned! Legalise marijuana"

[@trustgurure8108]

Telling a hacker to go away, please 😂😂

[@canadianguy521]

The live hack is funny af

[@coolbunny]

Bro was so nonchalant about it too. "Oh, those darn kids. Get outta here ya silly ducks. 😂"

[@Hairy_Takoyaki]

"Halow! This is BBC tech support, we detect anomaly in you bank account... "

[@jacobthomas1344]

Man hackers used to be a lot more respectful. Pretty sure the hacker's song would have some hard R's in it these days

[@gpu213]

This ironically works as a great representation of the concept they are demonstrating, it shows that as soon as you connect online, you are vulnerable to being hacked. Accidentally perfect.

[@Die446]

i love how some times people rather then getting stressed they choose to have fun

[@sparklelikeaghost]

Because it's not his computer, and they had a lot less personal information saved on the device and there were a lot less stakes back then.

[@Die446]

@@sparklelikeaghost yea but it was live lol others would have gotten worried there image getting ruined in live show

[@Winteramen]

Ahhhh how innocent hacking once was. A fun song, a little haha here and haha there.

[@Das1dioten]

The first live stream chat

[@robertheron7017]

I remember those PCS from prime minisco with the red keys and the metal monitors. God that takes me back.

[@krashd]

BBC Micro, British schools were full of them.

[@TheGameGuy2024]

This just proves us British People are calm individuals.

[@I.love.you.ways777]

The worlds first streamer being trolled by the worlds first chat 😂

[@Undertale_chara_dreemurr]

The history of “F*ck off, chat!”

[@savalava]

The worlds first stream sniper!

[@OctagonalSquare]

The fact it went that fast from typing the username to being hacked is crazy for back them

[@12many4you]

The hack had already happened before he even typed the username. All that text was where the original welcome text should have been

[@DJBillyQ]

@@12many4you exactly. No way in hell did they type out that whole message right on the spot. They broke into it ahead of time (probably using the password "BBC" based on how short what he typed in was), then decided on what the best message to replace the welcome message with was.

[@Mary-Ann_B_Mabaet]

Tell me you're Chaotic Good without Telling me you're Chaotic Good. CG Hacker be like:

[@ThatPersonNamedJune]

"Excuse me mate could you stop hacking my computer" "Yeah sure chap, cheers mate" "cheers mate, let's go get tea and crumpets me good lad" "Good idea me boy, cheers mate"

[@ms.pirate]

That is the most friendliness hacking troll I ever seen.

[@Bkoded]

i love how light hearted this all is

[@gruphius]

That was back in the days when all malware did was messing with your mouse, telling you that you were hacked and then went on its merry way

[@kuratse205]

because back then there wasnt much of an incentive to be malicious.

[@snikrepak]

​@@kuratse205we just wrote scripts to play with the visual aspect. Kids these days do it for views lmao

[@HippieInHeart]

@@kuratse205 Yeah, that's true. Not really much of a point at installing ransomware if a company/government does most things by pen and paper like they did back then. I mean, sure, it would have been rather inconvenient to manually enter all the data from the files again and maybe having to buy a few new computers, but it wouldn't really have been a lot of damage compared to what can happen nowadays.

[@theloldog12]

"go away we're trying to do a demonstration here" is just the original "chat stop"

[@Mykeynikey22331]

We're lucky most hackers are just trolls with the shit they do 😂

[@theforsakeen177]

not really, they cost billions of dollars to their countries every years.

[@apple_ilev5s]

these pals were very polite "i hope your *programme* runs as smoothly as my *program* worked out your passwords"

[@TyIerTheCreatorLover]

Two click with no pause and then a last click with a longer pause. I’m guessing the password was bbc lol

[@Micofitness]

Just don’t put bbc into your search bar 😂

[@TyIerTheCreatorLover]

@@Micofitness I have no problems with big black cocks🥰

[@Joe-gz1fr]

There were literally 27 possible passwords, ofc they instantly got in 😭

[@emjaycpe]

1200baud, geez. My grandma can telegraph faster 😂

[@snikrepak]

Lmfao!!!!!

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

"My grandma can telegraph faster" fucking hell 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

Hackers now: hijack systems and demand abusive amounts of money to scam Hackers in the 80s: *literally saying hello*

[@Kevinmageddon]

This was the first twitch chat!

[@swagmuffin9000]

Nice of the guy to advise him to use stronger passwords. This is a practice we should all do.

[@PartlyXenon]

"This is the password" *Taps two keys*

[@Jeroen-Rijnen]

Try his wife's maiden name..😅

[@wlockuz4467]

Their username was more secure than the password.

[@chri-k]

that's probably pretty common. Is your password more secure than your username?

[@wlockuz4467]

@@chri-k What do you mean it's pretty common 💀

[@chri-k]

@@wlockuz4467 People tend to have horrible passwords because they don't care, but at the same time spend 15 minutes making their username unreadable because... i don't know why.

[@yattaohyaaaaa]

This ain’t coconut mall, this is Parking Garage💀

[@Ajibolaa]

😂😂😂 go away we want to do a demonstration 😂😂😂

[@uenoe233tatrkbussid]

Blud Really Invented Discord 🗿

[@qaaris4280]

Not only did they be polite when hacking, but the host was also polite when trying to get back on track. Wish it was like this more often.

[@paulnash9851]

Total British coolness. God, I miss this Era of computing.

[@rokaq5163]

This is probably what hacking should have stayed as: poke in uninvited, be a mild annoyance, all fun and games, then read the room and leave

[@bzipoli]

that was such a cute demonstration by all sides, what complete gentlemen

[@benruniko]

This is the best demonstration that could be given! A warning to new net users to choose better passwords and be aware that they arent invulnerable

[@JulyTheNeon]

Back in the good 'ol days where lots of hackers were just chill peeps lookin to see what they can do and have a laugh

[@meltedlawnflamingo]

I'm so glad for the subtitles, that high pitched tone playing through almost the whole video hurts super bad.

[@JmpVR_Insane]

i never knew chat messing with a streamer would become so literal

[@tomsmith6882]

Clear winner in all this is the second hacker who’s nickname is Yug because his real name is Guy 😂

[@TT_2clean]

Nkunku's just scored from the attacking 8 role 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@programmingduck-ot6lv]

He wasn't lying when he said the most polite hacking.

[@ProfYaffle]

What a lovely natured man. Despite being embarrassed on line

[@hike8932]

I heard the password literally 😂

[@tmac9208]

So his password was his first wifes maiden name? Like straight outta Patriot Games.

[@NorthLaker]

Sounded like it was only like 4 characters haha

[@shambhav9534]

What is this guy's name, and what's his first wife's maiden name? I really need to know.

[@krashd]

Of course it wasn't, that was just a line from the song.

[@KezKaz]

If you listen close enough you hear him type BBC for the password. Very secure guys

[@aero.mp4]

"try his first wife's maiden name, this is more than just a game" BARS 🗣️‼️🔥🔥

[@warrenrandall6936]

I think the presenter believes it's intentional on behalf of the guest, to show potential security issues. He laughs through the sequence.

[@I_KnowWhatYouAre]

They made a cybersecurity psa by hacking

[@MSAinflux]

Polite hackers are absolutely terrifying 💀

[@Ninebreak999]

The most absolute British hack ever.

[@jaybrooks1098]

password was three characters... its a bbc show.. wonder if that is the password

[@jeffsorrows]

Bbc "no?" OWL "access granted"

[@eduardopupucon]

The computer is a BBC micro

[@TheTrafficCone.]

Hackers just said "hey get better at using passwords lmao"

[@NormadYT]

He pressed two of the same key and then a different key… BBC?

[@untokyo]

Go away 😂

[@EmeraldWolfYT]

earliest "fuck off chat" ever

[@darylsmith8418]

I remember this when it happened - was doing 'O' level computer science at the time! We had an RM380Z running CP/M, and later raised enough for the school to get a BBC model A. The following year our teacher bought games for it - he said 'I've noticed that the people who like to play games are the ones who do best at programming...' Ha!

[@Dwonis]

"Just go away" Rude. He forgot to say please. Ah ah ah!

[@Cyba_IT]

I'm actually surprised "Hacking" already seemed like a common term as early as 1982. This feels like a modern parody of one of the first hacks ever. Ok, after doing some research phone hacking or "Phreaking" was pretty popular in the 70's so it had already been a thing for a while.

[@ramsey2155]

Guessing the Password ❌ Hacking ✅

[@therealcaldini]

Nice clip. Also worth noting that the BBC has its complete set of Computer Literacy programmes online. Worth checking out if you have the time.