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Traffic Hackers Pull Off 'Italian Job'
Another warning to Internet-of-things fans: A team of University of Michigan computer experts has hacked a traffic-light system.
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If you think the Internet of things will be safe from malicious invaders, a team of computer experts at the University of Michigan has a hack for you: traffic lights.
Taking over a city's stoplights has long been an object of aspiration for hackers. Compromised traffic systems have even captured the imagination of Hollywood, playing crucial supporting roles in the 2003 remake of "The Italian Job" and 2007's "Live Free or Die Hard" (the whole movie is worth watching for the traffic-light scene).