Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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76 points coloneltcb | 9 comments | 13 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.323s | source | bottom
1. jimmydoe ◴[13 Apr 25 02:38 UTC] No.43669616[source]▶
this is fun.

it seems most of these crosswalks can be configured via app from https://polara.com/ . So either the authentication was leaked or got physically flashed/hacked?

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2. systemswizard ◴[13 Apr 25 03:08 UTC] No.43669748[source]▶
Probably factory defaults exposed to the world
3. ryandrake ◴[13 Apr 25 04:55 UTC] No.43670195[source]▶
Very nice. Totally harmless prank and it clowns on jerks who deserve a good clowning! Hope the pranksters continue and keep it lowkey so they don’t get caught.
4. relistan ◴[13 Apr 25 08:42 UTC] No.43671158[source]▶
Funny not funny. This person didn’t do any harm but someone else apparently could. They are safety devices that need to operate correctly. Being this hackable is not good news
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5. ndesaulniers ◴[13 Apr 25 20:58 UTC] No.43675812[source]▶
You must be a lot of fun at parties.
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6. relistan ◴[14 Apr 25 07:12 UTC] No.43678816{3}[source]▶
You must be 13 years old.
7. streetmeat ◴[14 Apr 25 16:01 UTC] No.43682768[source]▶
Yeah except the tones and walk messages still play, it just doesn't spam wait over and over at a red. Do you think because it's playing a satirical message blind people will ignore the tones and just start running into traffic?
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8. relistan ◴[15 Apr 25 07:18 UTC] No.43689900{3}[source]▶
Did you read what I wrote? You think it’s good that these are so hackable? Funny joke, not funny security problem.