Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices

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Amusing, but there's also the possibility that someone could hack them to tell blind folks to walk into traffic.

Hyperbolic. I imagine if a blind person is convinced by an unfamiliar/altered crosswalk voice to “walk into traffic”, they need a personal caregiver to navigate outdoors. Blind persons are “blind”, not stupid.

But I take your point, there is a line, and we expect infrastructure and trusted resources to be inviolate. And yet these norms are falling all around the edges of society.

The Bay Area has a long history of activist artist hacking society. Billboard Liberation Front, for example. The Bay Area is not just filled with tech Bros.

It isn't clear that public vandalism is a good way to convince people of your political message.

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