While on a roadtrip to the coast this weekend, I stopped on the side of the road to pick flowers and prance around the field all happy-like while my awesome facebook wife, Spessa, sat at a road sign for about 40 minutes, changing it to this:
“Hack Naked” is a reference to the great PaulDotCom podcast, which talks about security issues every week. The password wasn’t written on the machine like it sometimes is, or one of the default ones, so Spessa brute-forced her way into it, which took about 20 minutes. I presume it took her so long because she was wearing clothes, and not hacking naked. The password ended up being something very obvious.
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I hacked one of these a while ago. Added a ‘page’ that said “Happy Holidays -ODOT” (it was may, so I figured they wouldn’t mind), and changed to to something stupid like “Goatse loves you” or “Brian Peppers Daycare” The next night, I returned to the scene of the crime. ODOT was doing work about 500-1000 feet south of the sign, and they had two goons patrolling back and forth between the construction and the road sign. I guess they didn’t like it.
Since then, every time I come across a road sign, it’s padlocked. Maybe I just have bad luck.
[...] While Spessa was here we took a trip to the coast. On the way back, we saw a roadsign flashing something about construction, so we pulled over and Spessa spent about 40 minutes working at the controls to change it. It had a password on it, but she was persistent and managed to figure out what it was by guessing. We couldn’t think of anything brilliant to write on it, so she wrote HACK NAKED, which is the slogan for PaulDotCom. They posted a picture of it on their site and we also posted it on signhacker.com. [...]