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2004-01-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Burger King Hacked
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Posted by Steve 2004-01-12 12:20:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Back in high school a friend of mine could do this to the local grocery store via his car's CB radio. Since he worked there, his voice over the PA wasn't all that surprising.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-1-12 12:28:44 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-1-12 12:28:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll bet it turns out to be the Chick Filet cows again.
Posted by Shipman 2004-1-12 12:45:11 PM||   2004-1-12 12:45:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like something a PLA member would do.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-12 12:47:00 PM||   2004-1-12 12:47:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Shows the bad side of using wireless for something that should be wired.
Posted by mojo  2004-1-12 2:37:13 PM||   2004-1-12 2:37:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, Mojo, the wireless is necessary. I spent a couple summers in my youth working at McDonald's, and the headsets are worn by:

1) drive-through cash, the person taking the order
2) drive-through window, the person assembling the order
3) one or more people on the grill
4) a manager

The last three have to do lots of running around, so they have to be wireless. The first doesn't have to move so much when things are busy, but during idle times gets to handle some routine chores in the back. Also, the headsets are used to communicate other messages -- "need more toys up front", "need more cups", "check out the next car load of freaks" -- on a seperate channel that doesn't go to the speaker.

I suspect the speaker and mic out on the curb ARE wired; it's just that there's a wireless "hub" (for lack of a better term) in the middle.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-1-12 3:18:56 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-1-12 3:18:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Now if they could find a way to hack it so that they can change the customer's order...

"What? I didn't order three dozen Whoppers you IDIOT!!"

Last time I ate at burger sling.... --shudder--.....
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-1-12 3:46:34 PM||   2004-1-12 3:46:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Could be worse. Back in college in the mid-60s two of us were working spotlights for a play, keeping in touch with the stage manager with a set of hand-helds. Seems we were bleeding over into the frequencies the local airport tower was using! Didn't bother us, but I think there's still a Cessna circling, waiting for it's cue to land.
Posted by OldeForce  2004-1-12 7:00:17 PM||   2004-1-12 7:00:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I had a buddy of mine go into a KFC one night and be told they were out of chicken. His comment was, "What the f**k you think I came in here for, bread and mashed potatoes?" He thought he was on Candid Camera.
Posted by tu3031 2004-1-12 8:45:57 PM||   2004-1-12 8:45:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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