Three charging points which were supposed to display the website of thecouncils charging internet were hacked to show porn.
A spokesperson rushed to apologize to anyone that found the inappropriate web content.
Officers were sent to inspect theEVsignage and ensure that the, uh, saucy material was covered up.
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And the more I considered it, the more I realized how low effort the whole thing was.
Showing porn publicly is passe.
Its what a group of teenagers in the 2000s would dream up in their parents basement.
Elon Musks photo with Gishlaine Maxwell, for one.
Dont know Ghislaine at all.
She photobombed me once at a Vanity Fair party several years ago.
Real question is why VF invited her in the first place ?
Or, indeed, just shirtless shots of him in his bodybuilding pomp.
Extra points if they could getthe scene fromPumping Ironwhere he says lifting weights is like cumming on repeat.
It wouldve been even better if the cyberattackers went conceptual.
That, friends, is some witty meta shit.
Studieshave shown that cybercriminals can do much more than display inappropriate content on the equipment.
This bit of silly hacking should be a wake-up call.
Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou
Ioanna is a writer at TNW.
With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.
