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Hacking digital road signs

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Wingznut

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