The reason road signs are still being hacked is because hapless lowest-bid Department of Transportation contractors aren't protecting their screens from zombified hordes with a simple Master-lock.You can go to this article and read Jalopnik's history of highway road sign hacking.
And we'll continue to spread that important message until they secure their damn signs — no matter how much the idiots at local news stations call us a "hacker website." They're stupid enough to think that's some kind of an insult.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Electronic Road Signs Continue To Be Hacked Thanks To Jalopnik
Over two years ago Jalopnik published this guide to hacking road signs. As a result hacking of the signs has been rampant. Jalopnik continues to defend its publication of hacking instructions as follows:
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