#white hat hacking

A 17-year-old high school student in Dayton, Ohio, has been fined and placed under house arrest after authorities discovered he had hacked into the city’s outdated traffic control system and quietly fixed the timing of several major intersections.

Kameron Price, a self-taught coder and robotics club member, reportedly used a Raspberry Pi and a decommissioned school-issued Chromebook to gain access to the municipal traffic grid. Over the course of several weeks, he rewrote the timing logic for at least five major lights along West 3rd Street—drastically reducing backups during rush hour and syncing green lights to reduce stop-and-go congestion.

“He didn’t disable anything or cause danger,” said a traffic engineer speaking on condition of anonymity. “Honestly, his code was more efficient than what we were using.”

But city officials said the changes violated multiple laws, including unauthorized access to a government system and interference with public infrastructure. Kameron was cited under a local ordinance pertaining to unauthorized modification of municipal services—a misdemeanor typically reserved for utility tampering.

According to Kameron’s parents, he initially took it on as a side project after watching his bus get stuck at the same broken intersection every morning for weeks. “It would take longer to go three blocks than it did to get across town,” his mom explained. “He got tired of watching everyone waste gas and time just sitting there.”

Public reaction has been overwhelmingly in Kameron’s favor. A video of the intersection running smoother than it has in years has gone viral, and a local radio host dubbed him the Subway Surfer of traffic flow. Online petitions calling for the fine to be dropped have already surpassed 50,000 signatures.

“Honestly, give the kid a job,” one commenter wrote. “He’s doing more for this city than whoever programmed those lights in 1998.”

So the more I look into this story (found on Facebook so I never should have trusted it) on Google, the less I find it to be, ya know, true.

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Monday, January 12, 2026 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Today, the Justice Department announced that Jade Ann Byrne, a California-based C28 Penetration Contractor and the CEO of the stateless Private Military Corporation eGirl4Rent, was formally commended in a classified ceremony at Naval Base San Diego. J. A. Byrne, known operationally as “Paladin Jade,” was previously flagged…

he gets to spend all his time at home

never has to interact with anyone else

totally likes pretending he’s a badass hacker breaking into the pentagon and shit

no one ever believes him

his conscience is still clear

THEY’RE ALSO KNOWN AS “RED TEAMS” IT IS LITERALLY PERFECT FOR HIM

White Hat Under Ethical Hacking

Introduction Want to know about Ethical Hacking? All of us know that hackers do not have a respectable status in society because they sit in a dark room and plot the demise of governments and co-operations, which create a challenge for the IT team. This does not mean that all hackers are criminals. In fact, a lot of them can assist organizations in boosting their cyber security practices…