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

[sylvainkalache]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/

[ChrisMarshallNY]

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

[xtiansimon → ChrisMarshallNY]

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.

[m0llusk]

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