Hacked Colo. Road Sign Shows Support For Snowden

[Purveyor]

TELLURIDE, Colo. -- A portable, electronic road sign that was supposed to alert drivers to delays on a southwest Colorado road got changed to say something completely different.

For roughly a day, it read, "SNOWDEN IS A HERO," referring perhaps to Edward Snowden, who leaked classified documents to reporters. The Telluride Daily Planet received a photo of the sign from a reader (http://bit.ly/1500MMk ).

Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Nancy Shanks says a time stamp on the photo indicates the message was up for at least 23 hours. A colleague turned off the sign Wednesday.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/22/5673574/hacked-colo-road-sign-shows-support.html#storylink=cpy

[OnyxCollie]

1. K&R. nt

[Union Scribe]

2. Next anti-Snowden blog spam title I expect to see here:

"SNOWDEN HACKERS PUT DRIVERS' LIVES AT RISK!"

[joeybee12]

10. See #8...it happened pretty quickly...nt

[Deep13]

3. Not as pithy as "Zombies! Run!," but more relevant to the real world. nt

[nilram]

5. Ditto the "Get Naked! Really Naked!" as seen on a similar sign at the time of the WNBR

Well, hullo NSA! Hullo!

[Aerows]

7. Or...

OMG BEES!!!

[Fuddnik]

4. See what happens when they legalize pot?

Quick! Legalize it in Florida.

[kentuck]

6. :-)

I like it!

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. I wonder if anyone else is disturbed by people fucking with road warning signs

to make political statements.

The signs aren't there for some smarty pants to fuck around with. I really hope there wasn't some road crew ahead put in danger by some asshole who could have posted their opinion on a message board.

[joeybee12]

9. Your obvious post was predicted by #2 above...

Besides, since they shut it off, it wasn't on to begin with...no dangers to alert...try again.

[Dreamer Tatum]

12. DU used to not be a cesspool of binary thinkers

who use self-righteous indignation to justify binary thinking.

Used to not be.

Suppose that sign read the opposite. What would you think then?

[librechik]

11. I LOVE Telluride

spend as much time as I can there. It's as if DU became a town with lots of money. It's me second home next to Melbourne AU, and even more progressive. This work is typical!

[Boom Sound 416]

13. Besides Snowden is a Philly not a hero

Must be a Colorado thing