Toronto, Canada
Toronto GO Transit LED train signs reprogrammed with insulting message about PM
Scrolling LED signs on GO Transit trains around Toronto showed an insulting message about Stephen Harper for several days in May 2006. A GO spokesman said the signs were programmed with an infrared remote and had no password protection when installed about six years earlier, and transport officials planned to password-protect 790 signs. The sign operator, Exclusive Advertising, said GO Trains had not authorized the message, and the perpetrator was not identified in the sources read.
- Type
- Screen hijack
- Sector
- Transit
- Country
- Canada
Sources
- With a $25 remote, hacker was able to reprogram scrolling LED signs on local trains · Computerworld
- Canadian train sign hack · The Register
- Hacker hijacks Toronto trains' LED signs · NBC News