Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for August 13, 2022

We would settle for someone to intercept and scramble the Fox News channel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

I was in the Navy on a ship. We had the 1MC which was a system of speakers throughout the ship for announcements. We hacked into it with a 200Watt amplifier and started playing music, LOL! Big ship, about 100 speakers. Didn’t get caught.

I suspected Oliver would figure out how to do that.

Oliver looks a little too pleased with himself in that last panel.

Let Oliver do His Thing!

Milo, go away with your useless commentary….

Milo: “Think in Russian!”

So, in the descrambling wars. Unscrambling was done with a microchipThe pirates probed the chip and copied it.The chip was made to self destruct if probed.The pirates cut the top off to scan the chip with an electron microscope and copy it (Pirates within universities, we suspected)Chips were made with circuits that self destructed if exposed to light.Pirates worked in the dark.Signals changed from analog to digital. Game over for pirates.

If he can do all that, why can’t he just unscramble the signals for his dad’s satellite dish?