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title: TV-B-Gone II
date: 2008-01-13 11:55:00.00 -8
tags: posts 
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[Kill your television](http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/) folks! [Adbust your counterculture](http://www.adbusters.org/metas/corpo/blackspotshoes/index.php)!

[Bloggers](http://gizmodo.com/343348/confessions-the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-ces) at one of the major annual electronics conferences used a [tv-b-gone](http://www.grantstavely.com/tv-b-gone) to [power off electronics](http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9849168-7.html) used by presenters. What ~hilarious pranksters~ jerks.

Great comments over at [Webware](http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9848317-2.html).

There is an interesting infosec black/white hat divide on response to the issue. There is also a lot of hacker-ish [blaming the victim](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame_the_victim) going around. Lame.

[Video of the idiocy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJRwZMG5GQ4).