Two People Hacked A Billboard And Played, Ahem, Adult Videos On It

Long stretches of highways can make for a pretty boring drive, especially if it’s a highway that’s part of your daily commute or you’re driving through the night, and keeping yourself alert on the road is extremely important. Usually a good playlist or a funny podcast will do the trick, but sometimes all you need to make sure you’re wide awake are things that happen right outside your windshield.

The town of Auburn Hills, Michigan, is home to approximately 22,000 people, and one now very famous billboard.

The billboard that sits on the I-75 and M-59 interchange is operated by a regular ol’ desktop computer, and it displays whatever is on the computer monitor. This seems like a pretty efficient and simple way to put up ads, but I’m sure everyone already knows where this is going. On Saturday night just before 11pm, two individuals climbed the 6-foot tall fence surrounding the control booth for this fateful billboard, proceeded to break into the booth, and hack into the computer. I say “hacked” but really, who knows what kind of security measures there were. This is a photo from Google Maps that shows what the billboard usually looks like:

Google Images

Yeah, that’s a Windows Vista display. So, like I said, who knows if this computer even really needed to be “hacked into” or if all these guys had to do was move the mouse to wake the screen up and type in “password1”.

Truly some mastermind hacker shit.

Oh, and this is the photo the local authorities have released of the two suspects:

Auburn Hills Police Department

So yeah, it’s definitely two boys who are probably 14-17 years old, and to echo my previous statement, we all know where this is going.

Once these two Mission Impossible super-spies gained access to the mainframe they did what literally any teenager would do.

They threw some porn up on that billboard.

NSFW

These two definitely chose the right time to do this, because who’s gonna be hanging around the control booth for a digital billboard at 11pm on a Saturday night, and since it was 11pm it was extremely dark, and the porn was just so, so bright. Apparently the videos played for around 20 minutes before cops arrived and shut down the raunchy billboard and subsequently all of the fun in Auburn Hills, Michigan that night.

Yes, this is a major distraction to drivers and yes this is “not appropriate” blah blah blah, whatever, let’s stop dancing around the fact that this is FUCKING (pun not intended) HILARIOUS.

And considering the billboard usually looks like a Windows Vista display I’d say this was honestly a massive improvement.

Published at Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:43:32 +0000