When your crosswalk starts quoting Elon Musk, something’s gone very wrong.
Over the weekend, hackers hijacked audio-enabled crosswalk buttons across Silicon Valley — replacing accessibility messages with AI-generated voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Pedestrians in Menlo Park and Palo Alto were met with bizarre, deepfake-style soundbites like:
“There’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.”
“I guess money can’t buy happiness… but it can buy a Cybertruck.”
The punchline? This wasn’t a high-level exploit.
Reports suggest the attackers likely used default credentials that had never been changed.
Let that sink in: public infrastructure, intended to serve the visually impaired, turned into an AI-powered street performance — all because of basic security negligence.
This is bigger than a viral moment:
– Public systems are routinely left exposed
– AI + deepfake tools are trivial to access
– And human oversight remains the weakest link
At @Efani, we believe that real security begins with the basics.
If you haven’t changed your device defaults — you’ve already been compromised.
What are your thoughts?
It reportedly runs on its own private servers, meaning no public cloud or APIs to track. Makes detecting and stopping this kind of tool way harder. The game is changing... 
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