Cool, must hack now ;)

Although a real hack would be making it show pacman under the original message.

i am definitely going to have to try this

Awesome hack! Only do the ones that have a ‘detour ahead’ or some such trivial bulls***. Don’t mess with the ones that are already displaying an important message…

Word of warning… These signs can also be controlled and monitored remotely. DOTs will prosecute for vandalism. How do I know this? I work for a State DOT. I would not do this.

oh yeah if the sign is very old and dots doesn’t work try dot1

Meh, I have a 60 minute commute every day, and I would love to see a sign that says Zombies Ahead…

A couple summers ago they resurfaced the street and for about 3-4 weeks ahead of time they had one of these signs up saying “Road construction starting in three weeks”. While messing with a sign that is in a live construction zone would be a very bad idea, and I would be strongly against that, I think changing a sign that is warning about future construction would not be so bad.

However, this makes me very glad that I do not work with the DoT or with any road work crew…

Funny, but a bad idea from the public safety standpoint. Would be better suited to make a zombies ahead sign (assuming you do not live in Boston). Or hack adverts that use a similar system. I just cannot condone road sign shenanigans. As the chap above me stated, many sheeple are just to dumb for you to mess with their do not hit guys in bright orange vests signs.

safety is no joke. sorry. really. kepp it safe and sane people.

jajajajajaja!

We used to do the plastic letter signs but I never thought that it would be easy to do it to something like that …

I use to drive a Semi Belly dump hauling HOT Asphalt for these construction jobs and I would hate to count the number of DUMBASS DRIVERS that tried to PUSH 80,000 to 200,000 lbs (Depending on what state laws were) of semi through the construction site FASTER and then follow me OFF THE ROAD INTO THE CONSTRUCTION TRENCH 2 inch drop off to a 10 INCH DROP OFF! That idiot did and stopped all traffic and construction until a tow truck (Medium Duty $$$$$) pulled his CLASS “A” motor home out of the trench (With a twisted frame) 2 hours later.
STUPID driver was about 6 inches off my stinger and didn’t see where he was going just pushing me out of his way as I was slowing him down.

“Also apparently from these posts it seems people who work for the state are all assholes and humorless pieces of shit.”

You really don’t get it man…when 80,000 pounds of truck is barreling by at 70MPH, you’ve closed off the slow lane and you have men working in it, at 6am, with only cones up, do you really think it would be a good idea to take away one of the main ways to communicate to the driving public that you can expect a lane closure and that men are working just ahead?

you’re the one who is an absolute asshole. i’m not humorless, but if i’m personally responsible for the lives of the men working, i don’t find it funny when stupid idiots fuck around with safety measures put in place largely because of horrible accidents we’re trying to prevent from happening again.

and no, it’s not someone blowing things out of proportion being concerned about safety signs changed. until you’ve worked out on a jobsite, you just won’t understand how many hazards there are and how many we’re minimizing for the workers and the traveling public, including your ungrateful and stupid ass.

I doubt there is a high risk of widespread abuse due to this article. This exact information was published in 2600 magazine and subsequently all over the internet years ago, and there are still very few incidents.

but if the hole is so worrisome, then maybe someone should plug it. Just a thought.

What’s next to be posted ,that can KILL people : a nuclear central access code hack ? An airplaine network hack ?
Don’t post these things … THIS IS DANGEROUS IN THE HANDS OF HEADLESS SCRIPT KIDDIES.

just hack the signs used for advertising.

anyway, part of your traffic management plan should be to check the signs each morning – so whats the damage?

@bob, you sir are the reason I hate corrections officers. (bare in mine I have no problem with “cops” and my own twin was a corrections officer) You have men, in a cage, who you are in charge of watching, many of those men are long timers who want nothing more then to get out and move on (bare in mind i have done long stints) and you would suggest lying about what i might have done on the outs and cause me to be harassed, beaten or raped???? sir if i knew what department you were employed with i would send your captain a link to that post with a letter explaining my disgust.

Man.

At least when April Fool’s day comes, road sign hacking is available to public.

But, wouldn’t it be best that the pic shown on the post that “Zombies Ahead” would be for halloween or something so when kids see it, they become scared?

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

“don’t post these things is not the correct response. As jesse said, this was in a 2600 magazine and this info has been around for years. If you give a damn – express concern, explain why, address the root of the problem by taking it up directly with your state DOT. Suppressing knowledge of a known problem is the most dangerous thing you can do.”

so you’re telling me i’m wrong and should do what you’re saying, not just saying “don’t post these things”…well, i do give a damn, i have expressed concern, and i’m calling my old boss tomorrow to give him a heads up. i don’t see what the point of your post was, since you’ve described what to do after i’ve done so. and don’t think you’re brilliant coming up with your “don’t suppress the truth, that’s more dangerous” nonsense. you sound like a hippie and an idiot. this situation isn’t about “suppressing truth”. it’s about not openly giving out information on a hacking website that can cause harm to anyone but the person thinking about doing the hack. if someone wants to mess around with huge capacitor banks and leyden jars from hell or arc welders or jacob’s ladders, then fine. have fun, and if you get hurt it’s on you. i don’t see you posting your home address, dob, and ssn around here, even though that’s “suppressing truth” in the same way according to your logic.

@ gravitus

Ha Ha thats the funniest thing I have heard in the last week !

Anyway, I don’t really like this Idea. Those signs are there for a reason. Changing what they say could result in death.

Just think about that, Imagine if someone died in a car crash because of you changing the road sign to “zombies ahead”

Well, I don’t think I could live with myself !

I think the phrase “Zombies Behind” would be more likely cause a crash. “Zombies Ahead” would only be dangerous if there were actually workmen on the road…since running over zombies is, imo, fair game.

“I would like to think that those intelligent enough to do the hack would be intelligent enough not to replace “danger (insert hazard here)” with anything, inane or otherwise”

How’s the weather on Tralfamadore?

tralfamadore is nice. the trafalmadorians have just finished explaining to me why I have become unstuck in time.

put in turn around and see how many listen

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Usually they place other non electronic signs along with the marquee sign.
You usually see warning signs about 1/4 mile before entering the the construction site.
If the only warning is the marquee sign then someone is doing something very wrong.
If you don’t want them messed with then lock the thing but still there should be orange warning signs as well since these can’t get dead batteries etc.
BTW frank everyone trolls you because you make yourself a good target by provoking them farther.
Though I wasn’t trolling you and I said I would never mess with a sign that has safety warnings even though if things were done right there would be a half dozen other warning signs and a mess of traffic cones telling everyone this is a construction zone.
I was trolling bob because he is an ass.

“I’m going to personally screw up every single one of these signs I find with “Frank sucks” and “Fuck Frank” until he gets fired or manually retired from his job.

THANKS FRANK!”

you’re a dumbass if you think my name is actually frank. you think i’d actually post with my real name, on a public forum? are you serious?

my first post was informative on why this was a bad thing to do, why it could be fatal. my subsequent posts were to stomp the asses of all the idiots who dare defy me, with 100% success rate. so far, i’m still the winner.

“Usually they place other non electronic signs along with the marquee sign.
You usually see warning signs about 1/4 mile before entering the the construction site.”

well, detective dipshit is on the case ready to expose everything. do tell, sir, what are the typical chances “non electronic signs” are placed “along with the marquee sign” since you say they are “usually” placed?

beyond that, you “usually see” warning signs “about” a 1/4 mile away…do tell again, what are the tolerance for this? your odometer while fucking with your stereo? what’s the high and low tolerance for such a measurement?

oh, wait…”BTW frank everyone trolls you because you make yourself a good target by provoking them farther.” no, you fucktards. no one is trolling me. i give you the truth and insight that no one else has. you scurry along because you’re so embarrassed by your lack of insight. don’t blame the messenger, dumbfuck.

let’s move on to others.

“I agree that the information should be public so that everyone knows about the problem. ”

OH THANK GOD. YOU AGREE. FINALLY, I CAN REST. oh wait, you’re still a dumbass. you fail. go back to your psychology major and stop faking that you’re you’re persuing a major in any science field.

“hmm… one of these signs with a solar panel has been pretty much abandoned on a highway near me…”

oh yeah. a $20,000 piece of equipment has been “abandoned”. in this day in age, there is so much extra money floating around that various departments of transportation just say “FUCK IT, WE HAVE TOO MUCH SHIT! LET’S ABANDON HALF OF IT FOR YOUR OWN SAKE”. no, you fucktard, that’s not how it works. you’re the same person who passes people on streets in your car only to be stopped at the same stoplight as the person you passed, but you saved five seconds by getting there more quickly! there are such things as “programs” and “contracts”. these can be…are you ready for a big, big word?…”long term”. OOOHH! maybe that PCMS was put there for awhile…maybe it’s part of a bigger program, stupid as it sounds…

seriously. i’m going to move to an island and build a huge wall around it so when you fucktards endure nuclear war and come to my place that is so conveniently placed away from everything, i will turn you down. every fucking last one of you…i will judge your stupid ass life and require you to life the rest of your pathetic, stupid-ass existances amongst radioactivity, hoping most of all that it sterilizes all of you and you cannot contaminate the rest of the world.

oh, you think “trolling” me is what you’re doing? that you’re worthy of calling your action a stupid made up participle? i vanquish every last fucking one of you!

I’d be more upset about people hacking these signs if they ever provided useful information. 9 times out of 10 they’re saying something like “BUCKLE UP.” Either that or you’re sitting in stop-and-go traffic for 20 minutes when you come to a sign that says “DELAYS AHEAD”. Gee, thanks for the warning.

lock the boxes.
use individual passwords.
teach your mojados how to call a number and have someone at that number tell them the password for that sign.
problem solved.

all i can say is “zomg pwnies!”

and yeah, find a sign that’s not showing life saving info if you must mess with it. but still… i wonder if the wireless signals permanent highway signs use is vulnerable… would be nice to see a sign that says:

Nashville…15 minutes
Hell……..Everywhere

I should probably get a real job since I can apparently operate a computer without smashing it with a sledgehammer…

Maybe I can make enough money to get this large stick removed from my humorless ass :)

well somebody must have read this as soon as it posted. the local news in Austin TX made a pretty big deal about some one hacking two of these signs. I think the message read “Danger, zombies ahead!!! Move to colder climates!!!” or something like that. Whats really funny is the city has no idea how it happened or “how could some one possibly do this?”

Also made national TV, saw it on ‘Today’ this morning. Laughed when I saw the video. And of course I knew *exactly* where they got the idea from…

ok guys this is just getting fucking rediculous so just shut the fuck up and go on with your lives. I guess that dumb funny picture caption i saw was true.

“fighting over the internet is like being in the special olympics, even if you win your still retarded…”

from frank above:
“seriously. i’m going to move to an island and build a huge wall around it so when you fucktards endure nuclear war and come to my place that is so conveniently placed away from everything, i will turn you down. every fucking last one of you…i will judge your stupid ass life and require you to life the rest of your pathetic, stupid-ass existances amongst radioactivity, hoping most of all that it sterilizes all of you and you cannot contaminate the rest of the world.

oh, you think “trolling” me is what you’re doing? that you’re worthy of calling your action a stupid made up participle? i vanquish every last fucking one of you!”

haha holy shit dude. your a grown man vanquishing people. CLEARLY you’ve been trolled.

@FRANK

How about fixing your fucking signs with a proper password or better locks instead of whining like a bitch? I hope someone runs your lame ass over and then finishes off your gay little ‘crew’.

“How about fixing your fucking signs with a proper password or better locks instead of whining like a bitch? I hope someone runs your lame ass over and then finishes off your gay little ‘crew’.”

well, dumbass, let’s go over a few things. first, my job and responsibility is not the care or maintenance of pcms owned by the agency i work for, and if you would have actually read above, i already mentioned i brought this up to my boss as something to be aware of for the pcms actually owned and operated by the agency. second, at least in the state that i work in, the pcms is not the property of the state when in a construction zone, it’s the property of the subcontractor who was included in the bid by the primary contractor who is in charge of traffic management.

second, you really hope that i get killed while working, and that the rest of the guys get killed too? what kind of idiot are you? do you watch nascar? do you think you’ve made the internets right after you posted? you’re one of the guys i’m going to vanquish, personally, and with great prejudice!

Frank said”you’re one of the guys i’m going to vanquish, personally, and with great prejudice!”

LOL @ Frank! Vanquish?! What are you some world of warcraft playing dweeb? LOL!

hahahah, disregard that, i still suck cocks

*sigh* I wonder how long it will be an till it reaches Australia…

seems these guys caused a fuss with officials in Austin….

http://news.aol.com/news-quiz

Uh… “vanquish” is a real word, created by people who weren’t video game designers. There is a world outside of the electronic fantasy world… …one where words come from.

This “hack” is kind of funny… but kind of dangerous. I think the warning in the first post says that. Really, though, is this a “hack” or simply a very simple exploit, like going past a guarded (but unlocked) door with one guard who’s taking a piss break with out a replacement?

The real question is… why bother “hacking” one, when you could build your own…. some thing like this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Dot-Matrix-Display/

Peace!

Hopefully no one gets stupid and puts like higher speed limit signs. Or Disease control messages

though many try, no one can possibly ghost-write for me in my posts…it’s because i’m that good, and you are not. you all fail.

and thanks, louis ii, for mentioning your opinion on the word “vanquish”.

anyone know the solartec password???? we dont have ADDCO on the westcoast……

And now one in Indiana. This one warned of Raptors Ahead.

Can’t you guys think of somethink fresh to put on the signs?

Frank your a silly little faggot. Its fun reading your not so witty comments that try to justify you’re dumb opinion.

once again, another nascar watching idiot who doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re. go back and take a remedial english course. you fail.

“Also apparently from these posts it seems people who work for the state are all assholes and humorless pieces of shit.”
this is true

win.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25003268-5014239,00.html