> What software controls the traffic system? One such software is SCOOT, which has been around since 1979. The name is an initialism for Split Cycle Offset Op

> What software controls the traffic system? One such software is SCOOT, which has been around since 1979. The name is an initialism for Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique. All of these are traffic light jargon: the red/green split, the cycle length, and the green phase offset. * https://trlsoftware.co.uk/products/traffic_control/scoot https://trlsoftware.co.uk/products/traffic_control/scoot > Are they difficult to hack? Yes, in part because it involves forgetting all of the dramatized baloney that you've seen on television. It's not done from a wireless laptop in the back of a moving car magically giving the protagonists a green wave at the opportune time with zero notice and preparation. For starters, in some places around the world much of this infrastructure was interconnected long before WiFi was even invented. There will be telecommunications lines to a central control office, and it is there that one would attack the system. Think of the original Italian Job movie, where a replacement tape at the control centre subverted the system. One would also attack it at these various roadside cabinets. (This is not to say that no systems use radio. Several do, and their vulnerabilities are appalling. But this is not universal. And the vulnerabilities lie in things like operating systems that were invented long after computer-managed traffic light systems for cities themselves were, meaning that said operating systems are not universal either.) * https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot14/workshop-program/presentation/ghena https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot14/workshop-program/pr...