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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."
a pair ... discovered a buried network of wireless motion sensors on the public land surrounding the "operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada."
:)
Upon their arrival, hundreds of vents opened up and millions of alien-virus infected bees immediately started swarming around them...
Oops, wait, sorry... wrong movie.
Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment
Hast thou learned nothing from the x-files?...
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Has anyone been keeping track of the sensors the aliens have to track us? I think that's the real story.
Or alternatively Area 51 is for real and you're just a government agent trying to decoy us.
* Large playing area
:)
* GPS coordinates are mapped
* Public land (hey, the taxpayers _pay_ for it)
* Who knows what goodies are at each site to be traded
Sounds like a good place for some geocaching to me!
Area 51, Hanger 18, whatever - even if this stuff had been going on, you can bet that they would have been cleared out the second someone official heard people talking about it.
Won't we rue the day when the insectiod aliens come to take over our planet, and the secret fleet of defense spaceships aren't ready yet cos' the govt. kept having to move them...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
the real creator of linux out there, microsoft labels were found on the motion sensors...
Or maybe they are making sure the only people intelligent and rational enough to expose area 51 have come up with your explanation of things. Or maybe they knew you would know that they would know that you would come up with this theory.
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Oh wait, it was just /. ed ...
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
They got him on conspiracy, but they never said who with.
Lob all you want, but dont forget that that same inept government developed the internet or at least what became the internet, and without it, you would still be posting comments like yours on dial up BBS's...
Wait, this is the same U.S. government that gave us Amtrak and the USPS?
That said, my personal theory is the same as mentioned in the article (yes, I RTFA) - that Area 51 is a testing ground for new, experimental aircraft. As a result, they don't like visitors.
-jh
"If you or I accidentally kick one of these hidden transmitters, should the feds be able to seize our Macintosh and photos of Aunt Betty?"
They took his Macintosh?!? Those bastards!
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
"Area 51 is a hoax by the government"
... are you sure it's not the other way around?
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-- Cicero
Dumb asses, I bet they were surprised when they were caught?
Well if we weren't all on a list before this story, we are now. Thanks /.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Area 51 is probably just another detention camp where alien terrorists are being tortured^Wquestioned. Govt. denies the existence of this camp to protect the red cross inspectors from the awful sight of ugly aliens nursing their greenish wounds. Ever seen an alien with sleep deprivation? Uh oh...
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Now one of the guys has been charged with a federal crime...
If you absolutely, positively must be raided today - illegally enter a restricted area.
I mean, come on, you know they're motion sensors - what did you think would happen?
-Adam
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How dare you think for yourself!!!
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Bah, everyone knows that area 52 is where they keep the stargate and is inside Cheyenne Mountain.
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GOD DAMNIT, IT'S SPELLED HANGAR. H-A-N-G- A -R. I've had this handle for 6 years, and damned if someone dosen't somehow mispell the thing. Same way every time. If you put yer coat on the thing, you call it a hanger, if you put a fuggin airplane or aliens or whatever else in it, it's a hangar.
Sorry, but I had to say that.
Yeah, but where do aircraft attendants put their coats when they're on the job? Huh?!? Where you now, smart guy?!?
Maybe they got too close to Stargate Command??
Internet not invented by government ...but by somebody else
Three cheers for Al Gore!!! Inventor of the intarweb!!!
Huzzah!!
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So there goes your argument that the government isn't too inept to have secret... Wait...
For added excitement:
*Armed patrols
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
SO...
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do they have hangers on the hangars?
badabing
oooo....But it's Area51! Obviously they are hiding something behind those sensors. Ha. If there ever was anything alien there (highly doubtful), it's long since been moved. Hangar 18, maybe?
They use sensors almost exactly like those on the US/Mexico border. I guess we are hiding something behind those sensors =) I bet there is aliens on the other side!
I saw this series of docu's on two roque FBI agents . You should watch it it's called X files or something.
-- I don't buy it, I grow it.
The declassifications of the location of the development of those aircraft were simply misinformation.
There is no Area 51 and no research of any kind goes on here. I mean there.
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Depends on how you look at it... I actually heard this conversation once (in an ethics class)
: Well, I suppose it would depend on the circumstances, and what was involved...
: Because, back in the 70s, this UFO crashed out in New Mexico... witnesses reported it looking a lot like a giant flying wing. The government sealed the area, and covered it up. They took this UFO technology and studied it to turn it into the B2 Bomber today. That's why they're so advanced
: Couldn't it have just been a prototype B2 bomber built by the government that cashed
: (Twitch.... The thought never occurred to him) Uh...no.... No, see it was a UFO, and the government covered it up! (think... 6 minute abs)
Student: What about the ethics of things like government cover-ups, and hiding the truth from the public
Teacher:
Student:
Teacher:
Student:
Can you reproduce this?
The "government" did not develop the internet. Everyone knows that Al Gore invented it. Geesh, get your facts straight.
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Personally, I think it's just an ordinary base being used for storage or something; All the real work is being done in Area 52 up the road. If anything, based on the assorted "UFO Sightings" in the area, they might have some kind of special vehicles program. That, or people are just fucking bonkers.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Don't worry about them, they'd just get eaten by our seven foot lizard overlords.
Or alternative alternatively you are a government agent trying to decoy him from decoying us!
All those people being flown in an out are CmdrTaco's chefs.
As for President Bush signing an excemption for waste disposal.......well, I'll leave that to your imagination.
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medecine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health... What have the [Americans] ever done for us?
Damn, when the hell did I say Compuserve invented anything? Do you see the word "like" in front of Compuserve and Genie braniac? I was creating a hypothetical situation of proprietary network access using, as examples, two early companies that offered an online experience to users. Maybe you were fooled because I used real company names, you foolish fool!!! Read the rest of my post (ooohh I know it's long, but you can do it!), you'll see that I said DARPA being involved was a good thing.
There are planes that take off everyday from McCarran Airport in Las Vegas bringing employees to Groom Lake
Maybe it's the other way around, and the planes are flying to Las Vegas (LGMs with gambling problems).
How do you know? If they did have a well kept secret, it's well kept so you might not have found out. I'm not trying to be rude, just trying to point out that just because you know some things, doesn't mean you know everything
See, there's things we know we know. And there's things we know we don't know. Then...
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You got it all wrong. Area 51 is real, he's real, and the government is a hoax.
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There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
Seriously? If its area 51...then where are the other 50 areas? Excuse me, theres some helicopters outside I need to check out. they look cool, all black and
I believ it was "X" :-)
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley
hee hee hee.. You aint too far off on your idea... Go rent a "earth shaker" truck like they ones they use in seismic surveys and set up shop out by their sensor range. *BRRRRUMP!* And watch as they go bonkers trying to figure out what in the world happened.
If you were ever in the testing area when they were doing oil and gas surveys, then you know how it would be to their sensors.
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
i used to work there. i'm in my fifties now, but i still remember.
...mom, what's it your doing with the cable? this is for homework, i'm not surfing. mom, don't...
it's deep under the earth, and at least two alien spacecrafts are hidden there, one still able to fly. five alien pilots are also hidden there, two are alive and held prisoners, cause only they know how to fly these spacecraft with only one finger.
these aliens come from a planet called ursa minor, and one is called wowbagger, all he can do is talking in insults.
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beer as in "free beer"
Where you now, smart guy?!?
This sentence no verb, smart guy.
The g-parent's explanation was far simpler, and I'm sticking to it.
Personally I do not think Aliens ever built a US Government. I find such a unlikely place as Washington too far fetched. Why would the all knowing Ga'zur'bk in the Mothership ever create something so silly? "That's one small step for Z'nargh, one giant slither for Z'narghkind!"
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
Apologies to Kubrik:
What is the purpose of a DOOMSDAY device, if you don't TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT, nyeh?
Please stop, you're making me ill.
The "government" did not develop the internet. Everyone knows that Al Gore invented it. Geesh, get your facts straight.
At the time he invented the internet, Al Gore was:
a) Two-time welterweight champion of the world
b) Assistant to the arch-duke of Moldavia
c) Wisconsin's official "czar of cheese"
d) Number 4 on the FBI's most-wanted list
e) A member of the US friggin' government!
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Not ever again...I'll tell you *that*.
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Pah, That's nothing. According to Bill Bryson, he once got a letter delivered by the Royal Mail with the following address:
Bill Bryson
Writer
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No, no, no. It needs to be more clear.
'Use of deadly force authorized...' Hell, it should say 'We will give the guy that puts two in your head a promotion and a weekend pass.
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In God we trust, all others require data.
Wait, this is the same U.S. government that gave us Amtrak and the USPS?
Don't go blaming the government because Americans prefer travelling cross-country in their own personal conveyances rather than using more efficient means of transportation.
Don't knock travel-via-USPS until you've tried it, buddy.