Road Sign Hacking

We’ve all seen these on the side of the road and wondered how we could change the message. It turns out that it is actually pretty easy. There’s a keypad inside for programming that is often still set with a default password of “DOTS”. Even if the password has been changed, you can reset it right there pretty quickly. We shouldn’t even need to warn you that it is illegal to tamper with these, so unless there really are zombies ahead, you probably shouldn’t mess with it.

[via Neatorama]

158 thoughts on “Road Sign Hacking

  1. I beleave in information trade. But a 13 year old could kill people. If it just added a peace sign or smile face ok. But any thing else would be FF FF FF FF ED up.

  2. To everyone who’s saying that “oh that’s really dangerous” blah blah blah…

    if there’s a construction sign there in the first place, wouldn’t most people have the common sense to realize that there’s most likely something you need to be cautious about ahead? Just sayin’.

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