Programmable road signs get hacked

[KoenigseggBG]

Danger, Zombies Ahead: Programmable road signs get hacked

 

 

What do you get when you combine a public broadcasting medium, simple data entry and a student from MIT? You get things like the road safety sign above, which was probably a caution for altered driving conditions, but now warns of the living dead.

 

We suppose that state Department of Transportation never figured there would be enough bored engineering students to get around to tampering with the signs. That might be why the signs aren't protected by any substantial security measures – changing a sign only requires the ability to type. But before any state decides to spend a few million investigating this fissure in homeland security, a portable, proprietary keyboard would be a good, cheap place to start. And not that we should really have to say this, but we will anyway: please, don't play with the road .signs. Hat tip to reader Michael.

 

Source: CNET

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Now that`s confusing, disturbing and funny at the same time.:p

[Guest LeetPix]

lol? o_o

[Car Freak]

Cool! Bored students FTW!

[Shy Guy]

lol

 

10char

[TDU 505]

lol

 

10char

There's my answer to how you get 1000 posts in 4 months.......

[T3hReaper91]

+Rep Mark

 

Anyway That Is An Epic pic...

[Cakeflour]

Lol! Yeah I saw this on iHacked.com a few days ago. If there wasn't a good chance of going to prison, I would try this out. :)

[Camel]

I'm not a bored student, and I didn't do it. Honest *whistles*

[DriftNismo]

Lmao, that's amazing xD. Kudos to whoever did that...

[Andreas¹]

Some people are so discrete.

 

But this one pwns:

[SLRRR]

Some people are so discrete.

 

 

 

 

 

But this one pwns:

 

 

 

 

 

 

:rofl: nice find + rep

[KoenigseggBG]

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:D

[-Lr-SpeedraceR]

But this one pwns:

http://www.funnyandjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/funny-traffic-sign.jpg

 

Wanted to post this one before I see you post it :p

 

 

In France,we got a larger dynamic sign, that could be fun if it would be hacked :D

 

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[Pherelas]

Ha thats very good but shurly there are better things to put over than zombies.

[iBilo]

Haha, thats legendary, on a similar topic

 

At school. 2 guys the year above me kept hacking into the admin's account and mucking about with it. The technicians couldn't keep them out cos they kept hacking through everything the technicians put there so the school gave them jobs as techies and they get paid better then the teachers! Rofl.