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."

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Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment

[coraxo]

You mean the same goverment that takes quite a few thousand dollars every year from you and almost everyone else?

Why

[xaoslaad]

What prompts people to screw with Top Secret government facilities. They are top secret for a reason; the sensitive nature of work done there.

You don't want your enemies to figure out how to build a nuclear bomb, but a next generation super fighter, or UFO if you're one of those, is OK?

If something did fall out of the sky and did land in our backyard, you should only be so lucky.

Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment

[the_2nd_coming]

uhh... when exactly do you think DARPA started their work?

CompuServe BENEFITED because of DARPA research moron, they invented NOTHING.

the internet started in 1969 with the first connections made between the government, UC Berkley, UC san Diego, Harvard, and Yale.