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Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices
- jimmydoe 2y agothis is fun. it seems most of these crosswalks can be configured via app from https://polara.com/ https://polara.com/ . So either the authentication was leaked or got physically flashed/hacked?
- systemswizard 2y agoProbably factory defaults exposed to the world
- SoftTalker 1y agoOr a mischievous or disgruntled employee did it, or gave the password to someone.
- tinix 1y agoThe manual says the default password is 1234
- temp0826 1y agoI've got the same combination on my luggage!!
- thenthenthen 1y agoA few years ago all 4 digit passwords got leaked, better change it!
- janalsncm 1y ago> SIMPLE WIRELESS PROGRAMMING The iNX is easily programmed using our industry-leading Field Service App, available for iOS® & Android® – no expensive software or proprietary devices required! The app allows technicians to configure system settings and sounds, as well as access actionable data on button counts, flashing cycles, and more. Security not included!
- TheAceOfHearts 1y agoThe S in IoT stands for Security.
- mathattack 1y agoI thought it stood for a shorter word. https://www.reddit.com/r/theinternetofshit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/theinternetofshit/
- jen729w 1y agoAt work we used to say that “security puts the ‘no’ in ‘innovation’”. H/t Baggott if he’s reading. ;-)
- chairmansteve 1y agoIt can be secure..... Or it can work. Not both
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHoping it comes to the Flipper Zero.
- Natsu 1y agoSomeone is either guessing the passwords, which may well be the same all over the city given the number of these devices out there, or cities could just be using the default password of 1234. Yes, really: https://www.polara.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Polara-iN2-iCCU-C-Quick-Start-Guide.pdf https://www.polara.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Polara-iN2... > PASSWORD ISSUES: The iCCU can be connected to thru Wi-Fi. The buttons can be connected to thru Bluetooth. A. Once Wi-Fi is turned on at the iCCU, the Wi-Fi password is DEFAULT1 (ALL CAPS). B. Following power up, each button will say “change password” every 30 seconds, until the default password is changed. There is one shared password for logging into an iCCU and all PBS connected to it. The factory default password is 1234. Using a Field Service app, use 1234 to log into the iCCU or any PBS the first time, and change the password. This changes the password for all PBS and the iCCU. See Section 5.2 in the Manual for details. C. If the password is unknown, a Password Reset requires a call to Polara Tech Support.
- ryandrake 2y agoVery nice. Totally harmless prank and it clowns on jerks who deserve a good clowning! Hope the pranksters continue and keep it lowkey so they don’t get caught.
- vkou 1y agoThe targets of this deserve every bit of shade that can be thrown at them, but unfortunately, this fucks with crosswalk accessibility for the visually impaired.
- DennisP 1y agoNot by much though, since "wait" and the tones still play. I suspect most visually impaired people will enjoy this as much as the rest of us.
- ashoeafoot 1y agoYou can not override the sound feature for the blind
- ThrowawayR2 1y agoAs someone who is moderately visually impaired, I'd be very suspicious of a prompt that had obviously been tampered with. There's one post already in this submission suggesting a "prank" of sending people out into traffic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670396
- gopher_space 1y agoAll of these machines loudly shout to begin walking before they tell you which intersection is safe. It’s really weird.
- thomassmith65 1y agoThat's a fair point, but what is surprising is that - unlike 99% of exploits one has heard about, over the years - these hackers: • had some civic-mindedness - enough to leave in the initial 'wait!' audio • chose messages that, while falling short of comedy genius, are amusing and above the level of an adolescent • didn't include any extremist nonsense Grading on a curve, that's a lot to be thankful for.
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- streetmeat 2y agoYeah 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?
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- streetmeat 2y agoI stand corrected I didn't read it properly.
- dboreham 1y agoSeems like: yes because the hacked message could say "cross quick right now".
- googlryas 1y agoWhy does it spam wait over and over? Have you considered that there's a reason?
- lupusreal 1y agoIf we could not fuck with accessibility devices which disabled people rely on, that'd be great. Thanks.
- lysace 1y agoWere you severely inconvenienced by this hack? If so, how?
- scubbo 1y agoOne does not have to be harmed by an action to be able to call out that it would have harmful impact.
- lysace 1y agoNo harmful impact has been called out.
- scubbo 1y agoNot explicitly, but > which disabled people rely on is pretty clear implication. But I'll spell it out for you - people with impairment to senses (primarily vision) rely on this infrastructure to know when it's safe to cross a road.
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- toast0 1y agoThese devices will also often indicate their location when you hold the button. That can help a visually impared person confirm that they're oriented correctly. That use case is likely why these are field programmable; factory programming would be sufficient for limited prompts (wait, begin crossing, count down, clicks and whistles, etc) but not for street names.
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- magixx 1y agoI wonder how soon it will be before some company starts renting these out from the city for ad space.
- cooper_ganglia 1y agoThat's actually a genius idea in the worst way possible!
- potato3732842 1y agoI'll take garbage ads over dystopian "the city implores you to <some thing I probably would have done anyway if left to my own devices>" messages any day.
- idle_zealot 1y agoYeah, PSAs are dystopian, ads designed to get me to act against my best interests are the sign of a functioning non-dystopian society.
- XorNot 1y agoI really do not understand people complaining about PSAs. Like learn some emotional maturity? If you weren't going to do the thing they're asking you not to do, then the message wasn't directed at you and you can go about your day just fine.
- garbagewoman 1y agoDifferent people have different responses to condescension, perhaps? You probably never even considered that. Consider it next time and be better. Hope that helps.
- kulahan 1y agoIronically, this is such a condescending comment.
- elpocko 1y agoThis 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%20buttons%20apparently%20hacked%20to%20imitate%20Musk%2C%20Zuck%20voices&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...
- zniturah 1y agoHow is it technically possible?
- greyface- 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (specifically, this post can be found on page 8: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425 https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425)
- denysvitali 1y agoCan confirm. Once dang pinged me directly by email saying that my story was re-upped. The story went again to the frontpage and the date was adapted (IIRC), but the comments were kept: --- Hi denysvitali, The submission "PostmarketOS-Powered Kubernetes Cluster" that you posted to Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075) looks good, but hasn't had much attention so far. We put it in the second-chance pool, so it will get a random placement on the front page some time in the next day or so. This is a way of giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you're curious, you can read about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and other links there. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Let us know and we won't do it again. Thanks for posting good things to HN! Daniel (moderator)
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- reubenswartz 1y agoAnd is Seattle, “Jeff Bezos” says the crosswalk is sponsored by Amazon Prime and exhorts you not to tax the rich.
- divbzero 1y agoAt South Lake Union and University District crosswalks earlier this week: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-crosswalk-signals-hacked-to-imitate-jeff-bezos-voice/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-crosswalk-...
- noxa 1y agoI love that it played the Bo Burnham "jeff bezos" song - such incredible art.
- drillsteps5 1y agoAbsolutely random thought semi-related to the topic. This is one of the better voice clones of Musk but it's still really bad because he never lost his whatever accent, and every voice clone I've heard (mostly the ones on fake Starship launch videos) speaks with perfect American accent. Something to think about I guess :)
- UberFly 1y agoSouth African accent is the one you're looking for.
- Lammy 1y agoSouf Êfrican
- louthy 1y agoDiplomatic immunity!
- dijit 1y agoSorta, he has a blended accent of upper-class south african that has been americanised. You will be hard pressed to find south africans with his accent. For specifics of what I mean, the breathy “â” (as in, a posh british person saying bâth) is present, but so is the american hard-R. He has a lot of stubbed tones in words like “heart” though which is clearly very south african.
- schwartzworld 1y agoWhat makes you so sure it’s a clone? I see a lot of impressionists doing Elon and some of them are really good.
- fuzztester 1y agohigh pitch? pun intended.
- jpollock 1y agoI've come across several of these that if you press them enough say "Change Password". I'm guessing they've never had their passwords changed from default.
- userbinator 1y agoPolitical satire is the best form of satire, but someone should hack them in the other direction too.
- binarno_sp 1y agoThe other direction lacks sense of humor.
- userbinator 1y ago"Walk into traffic and be unburdened by what has been."
- jjeaff 1y agoI guess that's funny because it's a thoughtful statement juxtaposed against the mindless, idiotic rhetoric of the other side? I'm sure she's said things that were actually dumb. it's just funny to me that something actually kind of poetic and deep gets so much hate.
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- aaronharnly 1y agoLike what, making fun of poor disenfranchised people instead of rich people with vast power?
- mock-possum 1y agoWhat would be an example of ‘the other direction?’
- skylerwiernik 1y agoGreat video on how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvvVSTlbqEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvvVSTlbqEI