The workers brought two mobile traffic lights to help keep the road safe while they worked. [Bastian] had heard that these lights use the 2 meter band radios, so he grabbed his RTL-SDR USB stick ...

Hacking traffic lights isn't entirely new, though it's rarely been so simple. Cesar Cerrudo, a researcher at security firm IOActive, revealed in 2014 that he had reverse engineered and could spoof ...