The Associated Press: 2,000 Travelers Stranded in Colorado
DENVER (AP) — More than 2,000 travelers were stranded at Red Cross shelters in the Colorado high country Monday as a threat of avalanches closed a stretch of Interstate 70 west of Denver.
Deep snow drifted into more than two dozen narrow ravines in the mountainsides — known as avalanche chutes — raising the danger of potentially deadly snow slides cascading onto I-70.
High winds and blowing snow forced the state to close the highway overnight. There was no word on when the busy thoroughfare through the mountains would reopen.
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2. Elite hackers know where to find #1. And most blueprint systems also conveniently include real-time infrared sensing of all movement within the building.
3. Every building in every city in the world has high-resolution video surveillance cameras in every corridor and lobby, pointed so that they are most useful for observing the building security personnel on their rounds, and they are all on the internet. And elite hackers know where to find them.
4. Every high-security system in the U.S. Government: military, intelligence, medical, police, air traffic control, highway traffic control, and especially the justice department, is on the internet. And elite hackers know where to find them.
5. Every high-security system will allow virtually unlimited brute-force attacks on their login without anybody noticing that an attack is underway.
6. Elite hackers can penetrate high-security sites with a brute force attack within 30 seconds, in every case. And they always announce their success by saying "I'm in."
7. Elite hackers have home systems that have at least three high-definition monitors, because the more monitors you have, the more powerful your PC.
8. Notwithstanding (7), elite hackers can penetrate any system using a cell phone.
9. Elite hackers always attack systems by writing attack programs on the fly, usually in C, while they have the system under attack viewed in a browser. Elite hackers can write powerful virus programs from scratch in 60 seconds or less and upload them to any system anywhere in the world.
10. Every system can be hacked by staring at the screen with a serious expression on your face and typing furiously fast on the keyboard. The faster you type, the quicker you will get in. And then you will say "I'm in."