You should never hack a road sign as part of a prank. But what if you know that there really are Zombies ahead? What then??
Apparently, while most road sign control pads are placed in a lock box, that box is rarely actually locked. And while most road signs are under password protection, that password is most generally just the default code “DOTS”—or you can easily reset the password by holding “shift” and “control” while typing “DIPY” (so that it just defaults to “DOTS” again).
Of course, it makes sense that road signs aren’t all that protected. Most of us would hope that you wouldn’t be such a jackass as to take swap useful information for some joke about ninjas and/or pirates. [iHacked via Geekologie]
gerald mcmanus
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 12:15 PMI tried this and it did not work
Steve
Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 1:19 AM@ gerald mcmanus
I guess Australian signs must be different, which is a shame… what if I need to let people know there are zombies ahead?
LostZombies
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Jake
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 6:12 PMshouldn’t be too hard to get a manual for whatever brand we use in Aus. i think its unlikely anyone changes the default here either, its probably just something else.
Eugene C
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 9:57 PMOoh, on one of my buses to Uni, there was one of the signs on the road, however the message on it was for the week before. It was displaying something that only was in context for the week before.
Also, I’d still keep whatever message on there, but since some run on a cycle of messages, it’ll still be somewhat fun.