Snowmobile Rider Takes Roscommon Co. Deputies on High Speed Chase.
Posted: 1/28/2009
and at times, dangerous chase early Sunday morning during the Tip-Up Town festival in Houghton Lake.
As John McGowan, and Photo-journalist Chivon Kloepfer report, it was the kind of situation the Roscommon County Sheriff's Department had never dealt with before.
<insert perfunctory raised singular eyebrow>
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Zombies? Well, with the United States in the shape it's in are you surprised? Cause if you asked me, it just figures.
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Hacking programmable road signs
This road sign has been hacked to read 'Zombies Ahead.' According to i-hacked.com, it is fairly easy to break into the programmable digital signs' electronics and re-program the text on them.
(Credit: i-hacked.com)
We see them everywhere these days, digital signs by the side of the road telling us about road conditions or that we should prepare to stop or that our local bridge might be closed next Tuesday from noon to midnight. And if you're like me, you've always just assumed that the message on the signs is legitimate and properly authorized.
But what if the sign, instead of reading something like "Ice Ahead" was flashing the message, "Zombies Ahead"?
It's true that in San Francisco or a few other cities, such a sign could be put up by local transportation officials to warn people of an impending zombie march, but even in those places, the more likely explanation would be that the sign was hacked.
And if you're in the Boston area and saw signs hacked in this way, there's always a decent chance it was done by students from MIT.
According to the blog i-hacked.com, some programmable road signs are easily messed with, largely because they often have unlocked instrument panels, a text-entry system that is easily accessed, and are often protected with uncomplicated, or unchanged default passwords.
This is the internal display system of an Addco sign, according to i-hacked.com.
(Credit: i-hacked.com)"Programming is as simple as scrolling down the menu selection to 'Instant Text,'" i-hacked reported. "Type whatever you want to display, (and) hit 'enter' to submit. You can now either throw it up on the sign by selecting 'Run w/out save' or you can add more pages to it by selecting 'Add page.'"
Of course, you probably don't want to do this in plain view of any law enforcement officials, and i-hacked led its post with a disclaimer warning against ever performing this hack. So here at Geek Gestalt, we'll just say that it's interesting that this could be such an easy thing to do and leave it at that.
Daniel Terdiman is a staff writer at CNET News covering games, Net culture, and everything in between.Then, on Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:16 PM, my friend, rick, and not rickubis wrote:
That's pretty funny.......or *is* it?
Did *anyone* take the correct measures when they saw the signs? I
would guess they did NOT.
The "authorities" are already aware of the dangers of Solanum (the
zombie virus) infection, and cover up outbreaks either to "avoid
panic" or to hide experimentation on civilians. What if the hackers
were warning of an actual outbreak--against government orders? What
happened to *them*? Their remains could be decaying in the re-killed
bodies of a mob of zombies even now. Or, they could be detained in
some dark, dank holding tank. (poetic, eh?)
Rick, who says "Yeah, it's all a big joke until zombies eat your
girlfriend , and bite your best buddy. But he doesn't tell you, and
while you're hiding behind a wall of burning automobiles waiting for
the army helicopter he dies and reanimates and then shambles up behind
you but you can't hear him moaning over the noise of the conflagration
but you catch a movement out of your peripheral vision so you turn
just in time and blast off his head with both barrels filled with
double-ought buckshot and goo flies everywhere and covers your
facemask so you can't see and while you're wiping your face clean you
slip on more goo and twist your ankle and the pain makes your realize
this isn't a friggin' dream and you are royally screwed."
I stand corrected.....He has a point.
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