NCDOT says the sign was hacked, but the roadside display wasn’t even locked.

  • @0110010001100010
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    Yeah and if I recall correctly the default password on these things is like 1234 and rarely changed. So unlocked with a stupid password isn’t even close to hacked.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      unlocked with a stupid password isn’t even close to hacked

      It’s hacking in the same sense that stealing stuff from a house after the owner left the door unlocked is burglary, with that sense being the legal sense.

    • uphillbothways
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      From a 2009 Jalopnik article:

      Should it will ask you for a password. Try “DOTS”, the default password.

      In all likelihood, the crew will not have changed it. However if they did, never fear. Hold “Control” and “Shift” and while holding, enter “DIPY”. This will reset the sign and reset the password to “DOTS” in the process. You’re in!

      You can also find the manuals for these electronic road signs easily online.

    • Sabata11792
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      Well, now I just got to come up with something more creative than racial slurs.