Hacking digital road signs

[Wingznut]

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A hacked digital road sign has been shut down.

The hacked road sign is on Southeast 39th Avenue and Grant Street. Instead of a normal traffic message it read “Caution. Gingers ahead.”

It was shut down Saturday.

This road-sign hacking is just the latest in a series of altered street signs in the Portland area.

In 2012, one electronic sign warned of the fiscal cliff ahead. Another said the zombies are coming.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Holy crap!

You're still here?

I thought you disappeared for years...

 

[Red Squirrel]

hahaha those are hilarious.

Every year they shut down the main street in my area to redo it and put these signs up. Sooo tempting to hack them and put something like "We're digging it up again. Your tax dollars at work. Canada's Economic Action plan working for you!"

 

[RossMAN]

I dunno why but the Mario sign gets me every time:

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/05/27/18-hacked-digital-road-signs/

 

[Fenixgoon]

gotta say it is pretty funny

though if an accident were to result due to the changes, i'm sure someone could theoretically be held liable.

 

[Ruptga]

gotta say it is pretty funny

though if an accident were to result due to the changes, i'm sure someone could theoretically be held liable.

Only if they caught whoever changed it, or maybe if the judge thought the DOT didn't do enough to ensure the sign's integrity.

 

[effowe]

And here's how you do it.

http://imgur.com/gallery/ihUTS

Disclaimer: Don't do this.

 

[disappoint]

I dunno why but the Mario sign gets me every time:

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/05/27/18-hacked-digital-road-signs/

 

[BUTCH1]

OK, it is funny, just don't change one that's warning of a serious road hazard ahead, hate to think of someone getting hurt/killed so a "zombies ahead" could be displayed..

 

[Wingznut]

Holy crap!

You're still here?

I thought you disappeared for years...

More of a lurker these days...

 

[John Connor]

LOL!!!

 

[T_Yamamoto]

And here's how you do it.

http://imgur.com/gallery/ihUTS

Disclaimer: do this.

Ftfy

 

[Pardus]

And here's how you do it.

http://imgur.com/gallery/ihUTS

Disclaimer: Don't do this.

and then someone does this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...isplayed-provo-utah-road-video_n_1760393.html

 

[Krazy4Real]

I dunno why but the Mario sign gets me every time:

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/05/27/18-hacked-digital-road-signs/

Lol!

 

[dawp]

I'd like to see one of those digital billboards hacked.

 

[DrPizza]

Don't forget to change the password!

 

[Puppies04]

Don't forget to change the password!

Wouldn't really do very much if you only have to hold a couple of keys to reset it back to "dots"

 

[Imp]

They have a modem from what I know (work uses them), so they are wireless. No idea what the range is.

 

[gorcorps]

Now was this one actually "hacked", or was it just one where the password wasn't changed? That's almost as stupid as somebody saying they "hacked" their friend's facebook when they just left it logged in.

 

[olds]

 

[rsutoratosu]

LOL

 

[olds]

I dunno why but the Mario sign gets me every time:

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/05/27/18-hacked-digital-road-signs/

The first one in that series...
http://atom.smasher.org/construction/