Can You Hack the Crosswalk Button?
Tuesday July 5, 2005
Hate waiting for the walk crossing signal at an intersection, yet afraid to jaywalk? A group claims the Instant Walk trick works on most models, reported by the Hacker's Defense Foundation. Three short clicks, followed by two long, one short, two long, and three short is supposed to turn many lights from "don't walk" to "walk". Homeland Security is reportedly supressing it to keep non-jaywalking terrorists on the other side of the street (and the traffic flowing). But don't get too excited, it may all be a satire turning into a hoax, as the original Crosswalk Button Hack story comes from the BBspot joke web site. The Juicynote blog wonders: what does it mean in Morse code? Hmm, seems to be SMEMS, which doesn't Google out as anything relevant. Looks like an urban legend in the making. Still, how many of us are going to give it a try today? Is my Morse code right? Come report on it in our Discussion Forum.
Comments
maby try putting in words of morse code
or maby S.O.S dot, dot, dot,dash, dass, dash, dot, dot, dot
Seems to me that by the time you get done punching in the “secret code,” the damn light will have already changed anyway.
Well… I have tried the real SOS and it actually did work once… now know.. that this light is set up on a timer system… kills us in the morning before school sometimes… It changes every two minutes or so… I came up right as the light switched and I clicked in sos and it began changing immidiately… after about 10 maybe 15 seconds…
Coincidence? I’m not entirely sure… we have done it a couple of times and out of all the times that it worked we haven’t been able to tell if it just the timer ran out.. or it actually worked.. I am planning to truly test it though… Stake out
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