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

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

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If we could not fuck with accessibility devices which disabled people rely on, that'd be great. Thanks.

It sounds like they still make the normal/expected sounds. So kudos to the pranksters for keeping them safe and available for the people in need of accessibility.

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

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If we could not fuck with accessibility devices which disabled people rely on, that'd be great. Thanks.

It sounds like they still make the normal/expected sounds. So kudos to the pranksters for keeping them safe and available for the people in need of accessibility.

The expected sounds are mark Zuckerberg talking about AI for 20 seconds?

No, no kudos to anyone who fucks with safety devices to make some point of theirs.

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

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The hackers didn’t make them hackable. They were already hackable. Your issue is with the city and/or company, not with the “hackers.”

The hackers didn't make them hackable, but they did hack them.

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

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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?

Why does it spam wait over and over? Have you considered that there's a reason?

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

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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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The S in IoT stands for Security.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hackers didn’t make them hackable. They were already hackable. Your issue is with the city and/or company, not with the “hackers.”

The hackers didn't make them hackable, but they did hack them.

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

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This HN post is seven days old but displayed and ranked as if it was posted 9 hours ago, with all timestamps falsified. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and an absolute mind fuck. Please stop doing this, ffs. The person who thought this would be a good idea is a madman.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...

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

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post #29

This HN post is seven days old but displayed and ranked as if it was posted 9 hours ago, with all timestamps falsified. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and an absolute mind fuck. Please stop doing this, ffs. The person who thought this would be a good idea is a madman. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...

How is it technically possible?
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