Hackers Hit Austin Road Sign

Eric Bramlett
January 28, 2009

As reported by Fox News, hackers cracked their way into a road sign near the University of Texas.  The sign was modified to read “Zombies Ahead.”  I find this hi-larious!

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Reading through the story, it wasn’t much of a hack.  The signs are shipped with a standard password, which the purchasers rarely change.

Thanks to Brett Tabke for the twitter update.

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Real Estate Raj
January 28, 2009

Where’d you get the picture? Looks like it was taken on the side of the freeway.

Solie Law
January 29, 2009

Excellent. But the hackers must be nice people to have only written that?

Sam Chapman
January 29, 2009

Watch out, I see a trend starting. Maybe the passwords will start to change.

Jay Myers
January 29, 2009

That’s classic! Really no harm done, and if anything it may get people to slow down and look for them.

As for the pw’s starting to be changed, sad that it takes something going wrong before things are done the way they should be.

Scott Allan
January 30, 2009

Consider yourselves lucky. Our County Manager has been rumored to have been having an affair with a bimbo in town that everyone knows. Hackers got into a similar looking sign in a very popular area and changed it to say this county manager had an STD. True or not, that’s embarrassing!

Eric Bramlett
January 30, 2009

Man, that has to be BS. In the age of camera phones & internet, that would definitely have gotten online!

Joshua Ferris
January 31, 2009

This happened in Austin?! lol… I think I saw this on digg (or maybe you twittered a direct link to the image?) and was wondering where it happened. Awesome.

derl
February 3, 2009

thats funny, i wonder what laws they break by doing that if they did end up getting caught

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