📺On April 27, 1986, electrical engineer John MacDougall, under the pseudonym ‘Captain Midnight,’ jammed HBO’s signal for four minutes, protesting the network’s monthly fee of $12.95
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A mysterious hacker known as "Captain Midnight" hijacked the HBO signal to protest the network's $12.95 monthly fee for satellite dish owners during the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman".The intrusion occurred around 12:30 a.m., broadcasting a personal message, "GOOD EVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT $12.95/MONTH? NO WAY! [SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!]", over a color-bar test pattern for approximately five minutes.The message was seen across the eastern two-thirds of the United States. HBO ex
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