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Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks is preparing to release 500,000 intercepted pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11 terrorist attacks. The messages show emergency services springing into action and computer systems sending automated messages as buildings collapse. Wikileaks implies this data came from an organised collection effort."
Who needs to make backups anymore? The NSA has all your data and communications stored for you. Maybe they should sell backup services to fix the budget deficit.
"computer systems sending automated messages as buildings collapse" 8:46 a.m. - "Ow, something hit me!" 8:47 a.m. - "Anyone else smell smoke?" 8:47 a.m. - "Admin has logged off" 10:28 a.m. - "System failure"
2001-09-11 09:05:13 Metrocall [0902425] C ALPHA HQFPSCORP2:Backup Exec Job Failed
That one brings a tear to my eye.
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You scared me for a second with your username. I thought I had posted that without even realizing it.
For that text pager message: "Finished arming the detonating device, Herr Cheney".
What next 7 foot lizards are real now?
Yes.
Think you're mistaken; they've only got four feet.
Did you even click that link? The first paragraph of the text states that they grow to an average length of 2 to 3 metres (6.6 to 9.8 ft). Check the pictures if you don't believe it.
Not for long....
Follow the money....
If you wanted the USA to have the tallest building in the world again, where would you put it? Would you build it in some developing city that couldn't support the occupancy of the building to make money? Montgomery Alabama? Little Rock Arkansas? No....
You would build it in the most populace cities. The largest cities that can support that kind of building and still make money off of it are all out of land. So, what is someone to do... Knock down some of the existing buildings and build a bigger one. Do you know what the cost would be to bring down an existing building in New York? One can only imagine. Do you know what it would take to get it approved through the city council?
Come up with some terror threat, and bring down the buildings. No fussing with all the red tape. Jesse Ventura is very vocal in saying that with all his demolition experience in the Navy Seals, to him the buildings were detonated.
Do you know how extremely hard it is to bring down a building completely vertical? Just watching some of the shows on the Discovery channel will tell you that. If that were the case, demolition crews from now on would be using airplanes instead of the weeks if not months of preparing a building to come down.
So, now there is space in the most populated city in the US to build the worlds tallest building, the American public even get to foot the bill for building it and the American Government gets the war in Iraq that they have been hoping for even if it is the longest stretch ever to connect the two.
Also to me there has to be something magic about an airplane disappearing into a 6 foot wide hole in the pentagon.
If this was nothing but terrorism, the three buildings would have been built back by now 8 years later. Atleast one of them.
Oh. You're THAT guy.
It's taken that long to redact / doctor the messages which aren't in line wi687B(R&^bv9NO CARRIER
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Just put it on vibrate and leave it resting on your crotch. I guarantee you will wake up happy.
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7 Skytel [002380116] B ALPHA Frank.Heisler@ubsw.com|FW: Exchange IT Event - CANCELLED| -----Original Message----- From: Bucher, Gisela Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:54 PM To: DL-Perot-STAM-Permanent Cc: Subject: Exchange IT Event - CANCELLED
This confuses me greatly. On one hand I utterly despise the terrorists for what they did...but I really hate Exchange too...
There's no place like
And your name IS smooth wombat???
So I guess you could have both...
That's just the opposite of my experience.
Several years ago I was working on a contract where I was frequently on call, and carried a pager.
After a while, they upgraded my responsibilities, and decided that the calls I would be answering after hours were too important to allow delays and issued me a cell phone.
The main difference is that when you call someone on the cell phone, you know immediately if they've gotten the call - with a pager, there's no feedback until the person locates a phone and calls you back. So you don't know if the person got your page and will be calling you back soon, or if you should escalate to the next person on the list.
Communication with a cell phone is just about as reliable, and always faster.
Oh, yeah, and you can call from any phone. See, in addition to SMS, many cell phones also allow voice communication.
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