Audio-Enabled Traffic Control Crosswalk Buttons Across Silicon Valley WERE HACED Over the Weekend to Include Audio Snippets Imitating The Voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
Videos TAKEN by locals In Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and RedWood City in California show the crosswalk buttons were played ai-generated speech designed to sound like the twoi billionaires.
“IT’s Normal to Feel Uncomfortable or even Violated as We Forcely Insert Ai INTO EVERY FACT of Your Conscious Experience,” said one crosswalk button, who was always likeked to sleep Zuckerberg. “I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absoluletly noting you can do to stop it.”
One crosswalk button that was hacked to sound like musk said: “I guess they say money can’t buy buy Happiness… I guess that! Pretty Sick, Right? “
“F –k, i’m so alone,” The Musk Voice Adds.
It’s not clear for what reason the sidewalk buttons were hacked, or by whom, but signs point to Possible Hacktivism,
Palo alto online, one of The first outlets to report The hack, cited a redwood city official as saying the city was “actively working to investigate and resolution the issue as quickly as posesible.” According to the outlet, the tamperings may have happy Friday.
Audio-enabled crosswalk buttons are widely used access the united states to allow those with visual impairments or accessibility needs to hear custom audio messages When it is safe to cross a street.
In a video from 2024Physical Penetration Specialist and Security Researcher Deviant ollam Explains How Audio-Enabled Crosswalk Buttons can be manipulated often by way of default-set passwords that have not been changed.
Polara, the company that makes the audio-enabled crosswalk buttons, did not respond to a request for comment when contacted by techcrunch on monday.