How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign (2009, highway, message)

[diddiyo]

Some Web sites, such as Jalopnik.com, have published tutorials titled "How to Hack an Electronic Road Sign" as a way to alert security holes to traffic-safety officials. Jalopnik urges its readership of 2.6 million a month not to put its lesson to practice.
"Hacking generally is about showing where there are holes in security systems, and I think this is a great example of that," the site's editor-in-chief, Ray Wert, told The Associated Press by telephone Wednesday. "I'm sure there are all sorts of ways to use that information in a way that's inappropriate, but we're trying to make clear this is an issue that needs to be confronted by traffic safety and transportation officials."

source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_re_us/highway_signs_zombies - broken link)

DO NOT under any circumstances run around hacking into electronic road signs using the information contained in this step-by-step guide of how to transmit hilarious messages to passing motorists.



Novelties: How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign

[Deez Nuttz]

I like the one that says "this sign has been hackd"

[rosecitywanderer]

If I were younger and more liable to do stupid stuff, I would most likely run out and do this right now. However, I got my illegal streak out of my system when I was younger so I'm content to sit back and laugh at others do stuff like this.