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How is no one calling this out as an obvious cyberattack smoke test? It's literally across from the Pentagon.

• mikestew 5y ago
  Because the much more likely and believable explanation is that it is mis-configured. Someone upthread even posted a link to (I assume) the manual, and it calls out the conditions under which one will hear “change password”. One of these days I’m opening that website that sells nothing but varieties of double-edged razor blades, which I shall brand as “Occam”, because sometimes simpler is better.
• djtriptych 5y ago
  I wouldn't say obvious cyberattack, but I'll bet Pentagon security is aware of this.
• snowwrestler 5y ago
  Do you know how many things are across from the Pentagon? Why would anyone bother smoke-testing a crosswalk?
  • 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
    To strategically confuse visually impaired pedestrians causing them to walk out into the street thereby tying up traffic in the nations capital making it impossible to roll out tanks to fight the invasion of liberals putting chemical microchips in the water to turn the frogs gay, obviously
• netsharc 5y ago
  I like your action movie logic... "It's digital, it's noticably broken, it's close to the Pentagon, it must be a cyber attack!". If I were the enemy, and I would think the enemy would have people at least as competent as me, and somehow hacking the walk sign is relevant to the misson, I'd test the attack quietly and on a similar system but nowhere near the conspicuous final target, and maybe use an audio file you wouldn't notice is different if you weren't paying attention. Something like have the machine say "streetah" instead of "street"
  • bombcar 5y ago
    You forget that the Pentagon likely hid the launch codes in the crosswalk button because nobody would think to look there.