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Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network
advair writes "There's a story on SecurityFocus about a pair of Area 51 'hackers' who discovered a buried network of wireless motion sensors on the public land surrounding the "operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada." Using a frequency counter and a GPS receiver, they tracked down and logged 30 - 40 of the sensors, before the FBI and Air Force raided one of them, and questioned the other. Now one of the guys has been charged with a federal crime for allegedly removing one of the devices that was protecting a base that doesn't officially exist."
The workings of bullets has been well known for a long time... It didn't make them less used though.
The only military developments you need to keep secret are attack weapons. And you only need those if you plan to start a war. A trully enlightented nation would only build defensive weapons and wouldn't think about starting a war. It would also have a lot less enemies since it wouldn't piss off everybody by being selfish arogant bastards.
Jeroen
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See how inept the USPS is? Within one day of the DHL man? Some shop steward obviously dropped the ball. There are checks and balances in place to prevent this sort of thing. How are all the shareholders in DHL going to feel now? All those customs officials that rake in bazzillions charging duty on items deemed time-sensitive? Clearly something is wrong.
The U.S. goverment may have supported the development of the internet, but Tim Berners-Lee develped the World Wide Web, HTML, TCP/IP, etc. and he was Brit working at CERN in Switzerland. Pretty good for the old Europe.