Hackers Crack Into Texas Road Sign, Warn of Zombies Ahead

Fox News ^ | 1/28/2008 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[Domandred]

Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead."

Chris Lippincott, director of media relations for the Texas Department of Transportation, confirmed that a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th Street, near the University of Texas at Austin, was hacked into during the early hours of Jan. 19.

"It was clever, kind of cute, but not what it was intended for," said Lippincott, who saw the sign during his morning commute. "Those signs are deployed for a reason — to improve traffic conditions, let folks know there's a road closure."

"It's sort of amusing, but not at all helpful," he told FOXNews.com.

[mainestategop]

Austin Texas is nothing but Zombies.

[Monkey Face]

Thanks, Bob!

*hug*

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You joined the Israeli Army?

No, they tend not to serve bacon cheeseburgers and I need my bacon.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I have not had Tootsie Pops in years but I was walking through WalMart the other day and a bag jumped right off the shelf into my cart and made me buy them.

(That's my story and I am sticking to it!)

[Monkey Face]

Yah. Kinda like me and the Neccos in Little Rock. I understand completely!

[Tax-chick]

Neccos *shudder*.

I had a shower. Now I need to feed Wednesday. Soon we will put several Offspring to bed.

[NicknamedBob]

"... but I was walking through WalMart the other day and a bag jumped right off the shelf into my cart and made me buy them."

Kinda reminds me of an incident at the bookstore a few months ago. I was walking down an aisle, and I passed another customer coming the other way. After we had separated again, a book that had been carelessly replaced toppled onto the floor.

She stopped and looked back. I looked back at her. Neither of us was near the book.

"So," I said, "nothing jumps out at you, huh?"

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ghosts tend to hang around bookstores or race tracks.
It must be a very boring existence.

[Monkey Face]

(I guess you had to be there.)

What?
Sorry Bob, but I’m watching the game...

[Monkey Face]

Ah. I thought they mostly hung out in my bedroom, messing up my dreams.

[sionnsar]

Yup. Even the amount of deficit in our budgets is decreasing (and this year’s budget is quite conservative). *\8^|

[sionnsar]

I am on the last year of a three year cycle.

That's what I said in the third year of my 10+ year three-year cycle. But those were special circumstances.

[sionnsar]

43. Thanks to company laptop I’m downstairs in the family room, warmed by woodstove, drinking American beer (Rolling Rock, a decades-old favorite of the in-laws), and online via wifi. Life is good...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That is the Oneroi messing up dreams.

Ghost tend to hide your keys and change the autoset on the coffee maker so it starts grinding the beans at 3:00 AM

[NicknamedBob]

"Sorry Bob, but I’m watching the game..."

Yeah, my wife and daughter are watching the game.

I keep glancing into the room.

[Monkey Face]

That’s it...they unplug my coffemaker.
And all this time, I thought one of my neighbors was playing with the meter...

[Monkey Face]

Sometimes, it goes like that!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep it is ghosts. Or apartment elves. They tend to be a bit on the cranky side.

Could be worse. Could be infestation of "college know-it-all hippies".

[callisto]

Thanks for the ping. I’ve been offline for awhile and missed much, I’m sure.

[Monkey Face]

Well, WE missed YOU! That’s for sure!

Welcome back! *HUG*