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Pony
07-22-2011, 10:16 PM
http://i.imgur.com/pGrss.jpg

State transportation contractors are warning motorists that hackers are changing Colorado road construction signs.

Contractor Rick Bowman says the hackers are posting humorous messages warning motorists to beware of zombies and vampires.

He says the hackers have changed signs in Colorado Springs and Pueblo over the last few days.

Bowman said it may be funny, but someone could get hurt if the right warnings are not displayed. Authorities suspect a l33t haxor that goes by "Thelancinator"

Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/roadside-121771-signs-ahead.html#ixzz1SsY37qxZ
JoeyB
07-22-2011, 10:20 PM
Selectively re-edited by Pony.

Clever.
Hal-9000
07-22-2011, 10:44 PM
:lol:
Deepsepia
07-23-2011, 12:15 AM
I saw similar in the Bay Area, last week . . .
Southern Belle
07-23-2011, 12:23 AM
Hilarious! Hacking put to a good use.
Griffin
07-23-2011, 12:24 AM
I wonder how many people stopped their cars, got out and ran?
Hal-9000
07-23-2011, 12:27 AM
I saw similar in the Bay Area, last week . . .


http://i.imgur.com/JSXyd.jpg
Southern Belle
07-23-2011, 12:30 AM
http://i.imgur.com/JSXyd.jpg

:lol: Brilliant!
Hal-9000
07-23-2011, 12:33 AM
:thumbsup:

http://i.imgur.com/m79bI.jpg
Southern Belle
07-23-2011, 12:35 AM
Speed demon Deeps!
Deepsepia
07-23-2011, 12:52 AM
http://i.imgur.com/JSXyd.jpg

:thumbsup: laughing . . . thank you so much, that is a keeper!

And FWIW, it being the Bay Area, I figured that it was announcing some kind of "fun run"
Pony
07-23-2011, 12:52 AM
Hilarious! Hacking put to a good use.

Apparently it's really easy to do. They often don't change the default password on the signs (it's like 0000 or 1234) you open the panel to expose the keyboard, type in the passcode, type the message and enter.
Southern Belle
07-23-2011, 12:55 AM
Apparently it's really easy to do. They often don't change the default password on the signs (it's like 0000 or 1234) you open the panel to expose the keyboard, type in the passcode, type the message and enter.

Don't give me any ideas :lol:
Hal-9000
07-23-2011, 01:01 AM
http://i.imgur.com/st24P.jpg
Hal-9000
07-23-2011, 01:03 AM
I loved seeing the desktop and Windows operating system on the till at the food store the other day :lol:

The debit machine was forcing the till to reboot so we all got to see an XP interface complete with taskbar (or NT, 2000 or Windows server) while she got
the till program running again.Never had seen that before.