Hacker Hits Electronic Sign at Lincoln Blvd This Morning

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Photo shot on the morning of Friday 13, 2009 by Cade!/Flickr

We have no idea what's going on here, exactly, but it sure looks exciting!

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Dang! This is right by where I live... and I missed it! :(

Probably just another case of poor tech administration.

These signs all have default passwords which are available online.

See: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/01/23/default-password-for.html

Welcome to town! Where is this Lincoln Blvd. of which you write? What is the best Way to get there?

It looks like eastbound Lincoln between 7th and 8th Avenues.

I would love to get all of those passwords, hack them at 5am and reroute an entire town of traffic with misinformation.

Just for a day. Hell, who wouldn't???

I get Tuesdays, anyone else in?

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What message to put there?

"Watch out for Newsom the monster."
"Don't extort, look where Ed Jew is now."
"Go to Daly City, lower sales tax."
"If you can read this, you hate Muni."
"Frank Chu was here."

Wasn't there a prank done in the 80's where some radio shock jocks declared the city closed during the morning drive time and told everyone to stay home and people actually did?

Was that city San Francisco or Boston? Anyone have the link, I googled and cannot find it.

I would put something more like

"ATTENTION: Bay Bridge Toll $50.00 ~ Golden Gate Toll $100.00 ~ Dumbarton FREE"

Let's put the "dumb" back in "Dumbarton"

btw, if it happens in the future, it wasn't me...
just sayin'
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I was running down Lincoln this afternoon and lo and behold, this was still there.

I don't know if it's CalTrans or the city or what, but come on, if you can't fix it at least unplug the thing.

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