Your Tollbooth E-ZPass can prism on you.

"carlifornia" (carlifornia) 09/13/2013 at 22:03 • Filed to: Prism, Tollbooth, E-ZPass, FasTrack

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According to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , we might have a case of Prism in our Cars as well. Especially if you use an E-ZPass or similar Device to get without stopping through a Toll booth.

That is, what Tinkerer " !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! " found out, when he fiddled with his E-ZPass to make this thing do a moo-sound when Data was read from the Device.

Puking Monkey is an electronics tinkerer, so he hacked his RFID-enabled E-ZPass to set off a light and a “moo cow” every time it was being read. Then he drove around New York. His tag got milked multiple times on the short drive from Times Square to Madison Square Garden in mid-town Manhattan …

… and also on his way out of New York through Lincoln Tunnel, again in a place with no toll plaza.

It turns out that the city of New York is reading the tags.
But not to hunt for wanted criminals. According to Transcore - the company that made the tag readers - !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! meant to replace sensors below the pavement. "Instead of conventional, in-pavement inductive loops that degrade with wear and age, this system uses roadside or overhead microwave sensors, E-ZPass RFID readers, and video cameras," explains the Company. The identities of the drivers are supposedly masked, so there’s no comprehensive record of drivers’ movements through the city. The thing is, though, there’s nothing about this in the Terms & Conditions when driver signs up for an E-ZPass.

The tell-tale moocow is now on a road trip through other states to find out.

Nibby > carlifornia 09/13/2013 at 22:06

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I want to have custom sound effects for my EZ pass...

carlifornia > Nibby 09/13/2013 at 22:08

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For example?

ASheep > carlifornia 09/13/2013 at 22:14

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Things I learned from this video:

Brake lights as turn signals are really annoying/hard to see at night.

Taxi drivers are insane all over the world.

I want my E-Tag to moo instead of beep. (in Australia our tags beep whenever data is being read from them)

qwertt > carlifornia 09/13/2013 at 22:15

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Yes, this will do nicely!

Nibby > carlifornia 09/13/2013 at 22:16

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That guy has the moo

carlifornia > Nibby 09/13/2013 at 22:18

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I thought you might want to choose another one

Supreme Kiwi Zorro > carlifornia 09/13/2013 at 22:21

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Like this... * bleats like angry sheep *

Nibby > carlifornia 09/13/2013 at 22:22

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I'd choose it to the Zelda get item sound.

carlifornia > ASheep 09/13/2013 at 22:24

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The FasTrack Beeps as well. Kind of lame indeed.

carlifornia > Nibby 09/13/2013 at 22:31

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Even better Sound - which even fits the Article:

Dusty Ventures > Nibby 09/13/2013 at 23:45

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My text message sound is the sound a cucco makes when Link picks it up (the old SNES version)

Nibby > Dusty Ventures 09/13/2013 at 23:55

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Mine is Windows 98 NOTIFY.WAV