Z-Day

So I read this article, here:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/949/949442p1.html

Apparently some folks hacked some road message signs to show some pretty amusing (to some) messages concerning a zombie attack.

A Few things:

- While funny to some, I don’t think joking about Z-Day is a laughing matter at all. Would you joke about any of the following while there was a chance that it was actually happening: a terrorist attack? a school massacre? an impending nuclear strike?

I didn’t think so. Had I seen that sign, I would probably have activated my ALPHA plan and begun bunkering myself in.

Now, what IS funny about that article, is the fact that they called these people “Hackers” and “Computer Experts” and even stated that the sign manufacturer had to be brought in to remove the messages.

Having worked on these signs in the past myself, I can tell you that theyre not hard to change, most DOT’s don’t even change the default password on them. There also is a published way to reset the password to the default pretty easily. So to call someone who has modified these signs a “Hacker” is akin to calling someone who adds a boost gauge to their car a “Tuner”…. more then likely, they were just the ricer equivalent of a hacker, a.k.a. a “Script Kiddie“

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