Article 6KTN9 How to hack the Jacksonville Jaguars’ jumbotron (and end up in jail for 220 years)

How to hack the Jacksonville Jaguars’ jumbotron (and end up in jail for 220 years)

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Enlarge / Three examples of the video screen tampering. (credit: US DOJ)

Was someone messing with the Jacksonville Jaguars' giant jumbotron?

On September 16, 2018, the Jaguars were playing the New England Patriots when the in-stadium screen experienced, in the US government's words, "a loss in reference sync which manifested as a large horizontal green lines [sic] appearing across one whole video board."

On November 18, during a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, it happened again-but this time, entire video sub-boards filled with green.

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