[Aros]

Quote:

An armed man entered the NOS (dutch public broadcasting netwerk) demanding to get 10 minutes live airtime.
The channel went on a blackout soon after (this footage was not aired).

He took a guard hostage and went to a studio where the above was filmed.
He was arrested ~12 minutes after the breach.

When you read this, don't panic. Don't start yelling and don't warn your colleagues. Act like nothing is happening. I am heavily armed. If you work with us nothing will happen to you. Be aware that I am not on my own. There are five more, plus 98 hackers that are ready for a cyberattack. On top of that, eight heavy explosives have been placed in this country. They contain radioactive material. If you don't bring me to studio 8 to take over the broadcast we will be forced to go in action. You don't want to have that on your conscience, do you? So take me to studio 8, the NOS studio.

(some parts are repeated here, heavily armed, 98 hackers, cyberattack, 8 explosves, radioactive material)...

They want to hold a live broadcast to tell their story. If the live broadcast gets interrupted in any kind of way, we will go over into action. Their conditions are as follows:

1. This building will not be stormed
2. The broadcast will not be slowed down, not interrupted for even a second, and not edited.
3. For clarity: No information at the bottom of the screen, no subtitles. If the conditions are met, we will be let free. I will repeat once again...
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I have the feeling he is a lone wolf. It appears to me that this was poorly planed.

[Cheetah]

Attention whoring is apparently not only a female phenomenon.

[CJ_W]

98 hackers? and not one of them can hack a newstation and upload their message there? You'd think 98 hackers would get their point across without having to leave their rooms, or try to get "radioactive" material. . .

REAL hackers who "have a message" would just leak some scandalous info(with proff) that relates to their message to the press and let them run with it. . .without outing themselves.

[Ocelot]

Only six footsoldiers, but 98 hackers? Maybe there is a use for HR departments after all...

[BortimusPrime]

So was this an Islamic screwball or just a regular screwball?

[Maciano]

Regular screwball. Not even much attention-whoring, he's got a few wires wrongly connected in the brain. It wasn't a scary situation at all, more funny. There's also a lot of footage of mainstream Dutch media types who are all running outside and hanging on together. It's quite the laugh.

However, this incident did highlight there's hardly any security in Dutch media. Pim Fortuyn, a former Dutch politician, got killed in the same place, a decade ago.

[YossariansRight]

Are the Amish rampaging again?