PC Jacking : A Craze is Born?
All it
takes is a handful of live Linux CDs and a little nerve. It's called PC
Jacking and was started in Paris by a chap named Manu CoronetThe idea's simple: visit your local PC vendor - Coronet recommends big department stores - and slip the CDs into a selection of machines, then reboot 'em. The PCs restart, this time running solely from CD, and potential customers get to see the glory of Linux and that they do indeed have a choice when it comes to operating systems.
It's a fun and harmless form of guerilla marketing, but just to be sure Coronet labels his discs beforehand:
"This is a Linux CD to protest
against the forced sale of Microsoft Windows with every computer bought
in this store. This CD leaves the computer totally unaffected. Just
take the CD out of the drive and reboot to let the computer back in its
original state."
He even hangs around to photographs his handiwork. You'll find a selection of shots on his website along with hints, tips and links.
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Comments
this is teh tits man
Posted by: mike oxlong | September 21, 2010 12:20 PM
lol, My mate used to upload tonnes of random photos such as "THIS DISPLAY PSP IS BROKEN" To those store PSP's with the wireless send function... lmao.
Posted by: originalfragster | September 6, 2006 11:11 PM
I got caught doing just this a few years ago at Dick Smiths Manukau. While the young sales assistant went to get the boss, I beat it out of there. I didn't finish the install though. I was still trying to partition the disk. It is amazing though the number of display machines that do not have BIOS passwords, or are freely connected to the net.
Posted by: vinref | August 5, 2006 1:25 PM
Like a messiah preaching to the unwashed that salvation from the tyrant is at hand. Bless his innocence.
Posted by: Nick | August 1, 2006 2:45 PM