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Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network

Posted by timothy on from the damned-if-you-do dept.

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."

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  1. What is a frequency counter? [n/t] by magefile · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no text [n/t]

  2. fark.com by CAIMLAS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You'd think that slashdot editors would get tired, or even a little embarassed, of posting things a full day behind the single guy (I think) that maintains fark.com.

    I'd wager at least 2/3rds of the really interesting stuff that I come across on slashdot has been on fark for half a day or more... sad.

    Anyone remember when slashdot would link to nifty project sites, nifty home-brew stuff and the like? Is it that such things aren't undertaken as much anymore, they're harder to find due to all the other garbage, or slashdot just doesn't go after the fun stuff? What am I missing here?

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  3. Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment by SilkBD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what exactly makes you think this? A theory is nice, but if you pulled out of your ass because it sounds cool... it' means very little.

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  4. Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment by beggarstune · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't knock the USPS.

    Go Lance! 6th Tour de France next month.

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  5. Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment by general_re · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    once again, you're not factoring in social security, medicare, sales tax, and all of the other bullshit seemingly innocuos ways the government takes our money.

    False. That chart takes all of those into account - this chart breaks it all down by source, and you can add it up for yourself.

    Then on top of that we have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for health care.

    That's not a tax, since you're not paying the government for it, and therefore it doesn't add to your total tax burden.

    I bet if you factor in the cost of health care for a family of four along with the cost of a college education for two children we as Americans come out behind.

    Well, sure, if you define things that aren't taxes to be taxes, you're going to "discover" all sorts of ways you're getting "screwed". Of course, you can define the moon to be made of green cheese if you like, but that doesn't actually make it so.

    So tell me, once again, how we're better off here?

    If that's the argument you wanted to make, you should have made that argument. As it is, you started off with the claim that taxation in the US was roughly the same as taxation elsewhere, which is provably false.

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  6. Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment by general_re · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Or, his income is fairly low, and he spends more than he earns, so that his consumption based taxes end up taking a very high percentage of his income.

    Either way, he's an outlier, and not a representative case.

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  7. Re:Stupid and an Ass by Gyorg_Lavode · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Can we get a "-1, disagrees with slashdot's general opinion" to more accurately reflect what I'm being moderated down for?

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