Danger, Zombies Ahead: Programmable road signs get hacked

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What do you get when you combine a public broadcasting medium, simple data entry and a student from MIT? You get things like the road safety sign above, which was probably a caution for altered driving conditions, but now warns of the living dead.

We suppose that state Department of Transportation never figured there would be enough bored engineering students to get around to tampering with the signs. That might be why the signs aren't protected by any substantial security measures ? changing a sign only requires the ability to type. But before any state decides to spend a few million investigating this fissure in homeland security, a portable, proprietary keyboard would be a good, cheap place to start. And not that we should really have to say this, but we will anyway: please, don't play with the road signs.

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Sign hoax warns Illinois drivers about zombies

Someone played a practical joke this morning and warned Illinois drivers about zombies. Joe Gasaway with the Illinois Department of Transportation said someone altered the IDOT message boards on southbound I-255 at Highway 162 to say "daily lane closers, due to zombies" this morning.

The messages are typed in on keyboards and are changed frequently. Gasaway said he did not know who changed the signs, but the messages have been changed back.
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Rofl thats good shit right there when u think about it all them people in traffic are zombies............
 
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