The audio-enabled traffic control crosswalk buttons were hacked on the weekend throughout the Silicon Valley, which to include audio snipts by imitating Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Kasturi.
Video Take By the locals In Menlo Park, Palo Alto and California’s Redwood City showed that crosswalk buttons were playing AI-exposed speeches designed to hear like two billionaires.
A crosswalk button hacked to sound like Zuckerberg said, “We are discomfort or even violating in every aspect of your conscious experience.” “I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because you can do nothing at all to stop it.”
A crosswalk button that was hacked to listen as a musk said: “I guess they say that money can’t buy happiness … I think it’s true. God knows that I tried. But it could buy a cybertrack and it is pretty ill, isn’t it?”
“F – K, I alone,” adds the musk voice.
The footwear buttons were hacked, or by whom it was not clear, but the symptoms indicate potential hactivism.
Pool Alto Online, a The first outlets to report Hack, Redwood City quoted an official that the city was “actively working to investigate and solve the matter as soon as possible.” According to the outlet, these disguises occurred on Friday.
Audio-capable capable crosswalk buttons are widely used throughout the United States so that they need to listen to their custom audio messages with visual barrier or accessibility that can know when it is safe to cross the road for pedestrians.
In A video from 2024Physical intrusion expert and protection researcher Divant Olam The audio-capable crosswalk buttons often explain how it could not be changed by default-set passwords.
Polara, which produces audio-capable crosswalk buttons while contacting TechCrunch on Monday, produces audio-capable capable crosswalk buttons.