TV hacking fun.
I was in a program called "Thames Reports" in the early nineties. The segment was called "Computer Crooks" and I was "playing" the part of a bank hacker. I say "playing" the part, because that's exactly what it was. I only got in there through being acquainted with one of the *real* hackers in the piece. You don't see my face as it was silhouetted out, but you do see my arse, which was quite nice back then.

Bill Wigmore was the reporter and he was very much in the "old school" mould of presenters, ie pissed before lunchtime, lecherous and rude. Think Henry Davenport on Drop The Dead Donkey and you have the right idea.

Anyway it was all a total fix. I knew the passwords because my mate told me, I lied and said I had hacked it by logging in at a "higher level" The interview was filmed in the directors flat, using the directors shitty PC. Even the exterior shot of the flat lights being turned on was faked. They just rigged up 2 TV lights on big stands and help a big piece of rigid board over them. When the "lights" came on, then simply moved the board away from the front of the lamps and voila. Oh and the cameraman fell over a car bonnet while filming a foot tracking shot.

It may not be much but I did get 3 days free bar privs at Thames Television, and 50 quid a day for doing essentially fuck all.

Also me and my best mate were visible briefly in "Another Audience with Al Murray" broadcast about a year ago.

That's it really.
(Equalizor, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:52, Reply)