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This is the single most interesting thing to happen in modern history and I hope I get to find out who did it in my lifetime.

I agree, but my hopes are a bit different -- I hope it happens again and nobody ever finds out who was behind either one.

Modern broadcast is a completely different animal than it was for the original. It is however, not encrypted, yet, so it's not impossible.

ATSC3 is encrypted in some markets.

The studio transmitter links very much support encryption these days. They also use COFDM, so you need to guess at a number of settings.

Making it worse for would be pirates, the receivers are ridiculously stable and will not respond like old FM links.

Wouldn't it be fun if it turns out that Max Headroom signal hijacker, D. B. Cooper and Satoshi Nakamoto are the same person ‽

Let's throw in Pynchon while you're at it