Examples of hacked matrix signs?
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Examples of hacked matrix signs?
I was looking at Insulate Britain's website and at the bottom of the homepage is a picture of a matrix sign on what appears to be the Welsh section of the M4 reading "INSULATE BRITAIN":
https://www.insulatebritain.com/
Given their highly disruptive tactics, it makes me wonder if they actually managed to hack the sign somehow (the image does not look to have been edited), and if so how they likely did so when they probably had no access to the control room where the signs are normally controlled from.
Are there any other notable examples of matrix signs on motorways or major roads in the UK which have been hacked?
https://www.insulatebritain.com/
Given their highly disruptive tactics, it makes me wonder if they actually managed to hack the sign somehow (the image does not look to have been edited), and if so how they likely did so when they probably had no access to the control room where the signs are normally controlled from.
Are there any other notable examples of matrix signs on motorways or major roads in the UK which have been hacked?
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Re: Examples of hacked matrix signs?
Unless others know better, I suspect they used the well known tool of photoshop.....
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Agree, the font looks all wrong, size and proportions are dodgy.RichardA35 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 07:50 Unless others know better, I suspect they used the well known tool of photoshop.....
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Re: Examples of hacked matrix signs?
Now that I've looked closer, I can see that the text is a little wonky.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 08:52Agree, the font looks all wrong, size and proportions are dodgy.RichardA35 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 07:50 Unless others know better, I suspect they used the well known tool of photoshop.....
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Re: Examples of hacked matrix signs?
In general, the simple explanation is usually right.
A mess* up rather than a conspiracy.
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A mess* up rather than a conspiracy.
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Re: Examples of hacked matrix signs?
Are they no longer programmable via a simple text message?
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Re: Examples of hacked matrix signs?
A sympathetic insider isn't completely impossible. Or an unauthorised appendage to the sign.
But applying Occam's Razor: Photoshop
But applying Occam's Razor: Photoshop
Re: Examples of hacked matrix signs?
If you look closely, both A's in the picture have the same dead pixels in the same place, which strongly suggests that they were made by copying and pasting a single letter A from a real sign. Photoshop.
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Re: Examples of hacked matrix signs?
Which is something you never saw in any of my doctored WAI's from years agothe cheesecake man wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 20:47Excellent detective work. Now you mention it the Ns do too.
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