Hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news

Oh wow. This is the next generation of that Max Headroom signal intrusion. If it can be carefully timed it could appear as if it's just a scene cut to another story, and then disconnected before the original signal resumes the next story.

Some years ago (2010 +/- 5years?) the organization that administers the Geneva Convention had a conference on whether to classify as a war crime the act or faking video of the head of a county or its military (eg. "I direct my soldiers to surrender").

I can't find a reference to it (perhaps someone else has better Google-fu) but there was an article on it in the NYTimes when it the conference was held.

Begun, the clone wars have.

is the video available somewhere?

I've been wondering for a while about when country-sponsored, network-base attacks be considered an act of war.

Methinks Iran might be pissing in a bowl of Cheerios they're not ready to have thrown in their faces. They're entering into a deepfakes arena with several states that have more advanced technological and cyberoffensive capabilities than they do.