Seattle traffic lights are hacked and talk to you like Elon Musk

An unexpected situation can live if you try to cross the streets of Seattle and wait for green light in a traffic light, since a massive hack (even without an author this fact was assigned), it places the voices of Elon Musk and other magnates of the silicone valley in the corners.

Voices are generated by AI and leave mysterious messages for passers -by, for example, this is:

Please do not load taxes on the rich, or everyone will move to Florida. Wouldn’t that be terrible?

These attacks have all the characteristics of what is called playful hactivism, a tradition consisting of technological jokes and dates from the beginning of the computer era.

Everything was activated using an application called Polara

Application Polar Pedap This is a tool developed in such a way that pedestrians can activate the application for a traffic light with available pedestrian signals (APS) Polar. This application is especially useful for people with visual impairments, since it gives audible indications on the phases of the traffic light, such as Walk, do not walk and clean pedestriansField

In addition, Polara offers other applications for adjusting and managing APS devices, such as Polara field service applicationUsed by authorized personnel to adjust the intersection buttons and other systems.

It was exactly what was hacked to place Elon Mask’s voices.

Seattle transport department announced that he was actively working on Return the changes and “strengthening safety.” Polar, on the other hand, said that their software was not completed, and that those who managed to change the systems were made using the actual conclusions that were not properly updated by operators.