The British Are Coming… YIELD, MERGE RIGHT – Traffic Sign Hacked
A hacked electronic highway sign in northwestern Texas carried an international message that seemed to predate, well, the use of electricity.
The sign Friday briefly flashed: “OMG The British R coming. They R watching you.”
A statement from Austin Bridge & Road says someone “with a questionable sense of humor” accessed the password on the message board. The portable sign that was hacked has since been removed, since a permanent exit sign has been installed. Similar pranks in other states have transportation authorities worried that drivers may miss important information about upcoming road conditions.
In the spirit of Paul Revere, some nefarious souls have reprogrammed (read as: hacked) some road signs to read differently than the warnings they were meant to be displaying. You might remember that Hack a Day informed us earlier in the week that, “…the keypad inside for programming is often still set with a default password of ‘DOTS’”, allowing the sign to read literally whatever you want — get creative.
Here at Deathcarrot.com we don’t in any way condone changing critical road signs, but we admit we would find early warnings of an impending Zombie (or British, for that matter) Apocalypse very important to surviving said Apocalypse with our brains intact.
