Hacking an Electronic Highway Sign is Way Too Easy

[Guest]

Warning: hackers ahead? Electric highway signs are very easy to hack — especially a certain brand which uses the same default password.

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[pills161]

Sun Hacker has absolutely no life, he/she needs to go find a real job.

 

[JohnnyBloomington]

Sun Hacker brought awareness to poor/lazy state DOT.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Imagine "Speed limit 95. Please drive on the left-hand side." Must be terrorists.

 

[coolitic]

Sun hackers is an idiot, and so are the guys who make these signs.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

The combination is 1-2-3-4-5. That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life. That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

 

[mamasan2000]

The signs need to get a life! Spouting nonsense!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Your honour, I was not speeding. I was perfectly within 200km/h. Look at the speed signs yourself.

 

[reactive]

The signs here in the UK are usually so ridiculous that they deserve to be hacked, just to amuse drivers. "FOG" they say when it's mildly foggy; "POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS" when it's raining; or "LOW SUN" when the sun is in your face and you can hardly read the sign anyway. And in Wales (stuck on the left side of England), every other sign on the M4 is in the Welsh language... which about 5% of the local population could actually understand or care to read... so making half the signs *totally* meaningless to about 97% of the road users (including foreign drivers)! How's that for stupid?

 

[jhansonxi]

I worked for a different company that made similar signs. Their security wasn't much better. These signs are generally custom-made for government contracts. The requirements often mandate ridiculous things because some bureaucrat though it made themselves look knowledgeable, while ignoring really critical aspects like safety and security. Some requirements are made specifically to fit one vendor's existing product line to help them underbid competitors.