Colorado electronic road sign hacked to send message of support for Snowden - The Washington Post
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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://www.telluridenews.com/articles/2013/08/22/news/doc52154157b3afe254343018.txt).
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.