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Clear Channel Plans To Roll Out Digital Billboards
Tree131 writes "Just in case you don't have enough distractions driving on the highway, Clear Channel is planning to roll out digital billboards. The new billboards will feature ads that depend on the time of day as well as the general area demographics.
I wonder how long before someone with lots of time on their hands hacks into the system and starts tampering with the messages."
Hmm..... I'm pretty sure that this is somehow a gross invasion of our privacy.
That's what I thought.. Here in Sacramento, over near Cal Expo, there's one that was mentioned on slashdot a while ago that tracked what radio stations people listened to that drove by.
It runs Windows.. I know because I've seen it blue screened before.
Will they have X-rated ads at 2 am?
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Wow, after reading my post, I just realized how badder my grammer is then most people.
Everytime I drive by it, it displays a beer ad. How did they know??? RFID chips in bottles? WOW! Technology!
Hopefully it will be running on Windows Me. That way, most of the time we won't be distracted by the blue screens (of death). The color might even be soothing.
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It's about time the common man can let Clear Channel know how they feel.
Just what people need, a TV on the roadside.... I think the real question is how long before they start showing Survivor on them ;)
Do ya think goatse.cx causes accidents?
Damn moderators can't get anything right!
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wide screen TV! And to think in the eighties I thought it was cool to steal strobing roadside lights!
;-)
Cheap digital picture frames! Whoot!
Quack, quack.
> > I'm curious if someone's managed to redesign a few billboards out there.
> A far more interesting hack would be to 'Own' the billboard and
...use them to DDoS ClearChannel.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Oh yeah, well we have one in Cincinnati. Beat that, damn mormons...
and I quote: "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."
Just think of the possibilities...now we can play tetris across the entire globe for all to see!
That is your hacker's dream? Christ, you might as well have said Atari's 'Tank' instead of Tetris. Me, I dream of a game of Pong on such devices. Everyone who has mastered intergalactic space travel, please raise your hand.
an unlawful act.
But if you're going to do it anyway, take a video camera.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
Of course lawyers are going to live this; chances are, at least half the ads are going to be FOR lawyers:
"Hello, have you just gotten into an accident while looking at this billboard? If so, then call us, at..."
The other half of the adds will be for insurance companies.
in other news, I name myself Lord of the Realm, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.
You'll be too drunk to see that far anyway.
paintball
I dunno. I can imagine them being hacked with a statement that says "You are sheep, you must buy our product". Heh, it kind of reminds me of the movie They Live.
Life is not for the lazy.
We've had these in Britain by the motorways for ages, but they always seem to be advertising something called "Major delays on M6 at J15".
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