It's amazing that the identity of the signal pirate has never been leaked. Doubly so since there were at least two people involved. Surely the statute of limitations has passed. Perhaps everyone involved passed away before they ever felt comfortable going public with their story.
Long ago I read a (4chan I think?) post from someone claiming that it was very possible he knew the people who did this hack.
He said he wasn't 100% sure, but that there were strong reasons to believe so.
He explained that he used to hang out with 2 brothers, one of which had some mental issues, perhaps autism or something similar, that acted strange at times, and that seemed to have skills with radios and other tech. He also remembers that a girl which is very briefly shown in the hacked video stream looked like the girlfriend of the other brother.
Also recalled that the voices in the stream sounded familiar and I think he even mentions remembering that they had a sheet of metal similar to the one in the video, and that his theory was that the brother with autism was the one with the mask, while the other one rotated the sheet of corrugated metal, while the girlfriend was recording them.
Anyway, I don't remember the exact details and of course I'm not saying the story is true or anything...
But it did have some interesting air of mistery even if it were false. The poster didn't seem like he was trying to lie to anyone, just that he genuinely thought he kew the people responsible for the hack.
And then the story he was telling suddenly portrayed a very cool and odd piece of tech "history", if it were true.
To me, this always sounded a little bit like real-life cyberpunk stuff and every time I remember about Max Headroom I'm reminded of the hack and the story I read by random chance, on a random forum like 4chan, thinking, what if it was real and I was just reading there a post written by someone that knew the Max Headroom hacker...? I wish very hard for that to be real.
Well... I'm rambling here, but I guess that's the magical internet a lot of us feel drawn too?
My theory is that this wasn't the only stupid tech stunt done at that party. Some of the others might still have consequences if known. There's also the possibility that people might've been new to the chemistry involved and never remembered what happened once they rejoined consensus reality.
