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.