Researchers find it’s terrifyingly easy to hack traffic lights

Ars Technica reports Researchers find it’s terrifyingly easy to hack traffic lights "Taking over a city’s intersections and making all the lights green to cause chaos is a pretty bog-standard Evil Techno Bad Guy tactic on TV and in movies, but according to a research team at the University of Michigan, doing it in real life is within the realm of anyone with a laptop and the right kind of radio. In a paper published this month, the researchers describe how they very simply and very quickly seized control of an entire system of almost 100 intersections in an unnamed Michigan city from a single ingress point."

I think the first time this was done in a movie was the original The Italian Job which I recently saw and liked. Still, scary to think about it in real life.