Indonesian parliament pwned by porn

As noted earlier today, the government of Indonesia recently commanded ISPs to block all internet porn within the country by the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan—August 11— or else. Today, some sneaky prankster managed to broadcast hardcore porn inside the Parliament, during government sessions. "The X-rated footage was visible to staff and journalists for 15 minutes before security staff were able to turn off the stream, local media report. The TVs are used to provide information on the day's political schedule." (thanks, Antinous!)

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DanC

Actually, now that I think about it, this sounds like someone was enjoying some porn and hit the wrong switch.
DanC

Heh heh heh.
Stefan Jones

“All the conservatism in the world offers not one iota of resistance to the ecological sweep of the new electronic media.” — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
- DanC
  
  Ooooh, way to class up the comments.
deckard68

The prankster’s got balls.

For now, anyway.
Anonymous

Nice. I just hope he doesn’t get caught, the types of governments that try to ban porn don’t go easy on the corporal punishment.
Marcel

An excellent example of how you lend energy to any element you assume an opposing position against.
Modano

Sounds like the ban is just going swimmingly. Great job, raises all around!
querent

Can we get a link to what was broadcast? I’m wondering what genre the hacker went with.

and yes…

HACK THE PLANET!!!!!!
aixwiz

Looks like they got prnd!
Anonymous

I don’t rally get why they’d ban porn.

If you don’t wanna watch it (for whatever reason) … then don’t. No one’s making you watch the naked ladies Mr Muslim guy.

All this law will do is turn ordinary people into criminals. Weirdly it brings to mind cannabis. Does no harm to those that consume it; but by making it illegal you turn it into an illicit substance that’s surrounded by crime.

I see illegal ‘internet porn rings’ forming.
Anonymous

HACK THE PLANET!!!