Researchers Find It’s Terrifyingly Easy To Hack Traffic Lights

Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica
Wed, 08/20/2014 - 11:39am

A typical intersection configuration. Halderman et al., University of Michigan Taking over a city’s intersections and making all the lights green to cause chaos is a pretty bog-standard Evil Techno Bad Guy tactic on TV and in movies, but according to a research team at the University of Michigan, doing it in real life is within the realm of anyone with a laptop and the right kind of radio.

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