Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @12:47AM 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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Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment by cyb97 · 2004-05-26 00:50 · Score: 1, Redundant

Kinda remember a discovery program a few years back that with some dubious evidence claimed that the US government had moved everything interesting out of Area-51 and up north to a new "UFO-base".

Can't remember where they moved it though, and not the name of the program, so in reality it's just a speculation on my part ;-)