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FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear

Posted by timothy on from the post-black-hat-vacation dept.

v3rgEz writes: The 29th annual Burning Man festival kicks off this week in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Among those paying close attention to the festivities will be the FBI's Special Events Management unit, who have kept files on "burners" since at least 2010. One of the more interesting things in those, files, however, is a lengthy, heavily redacted paragraph detailing that the FBI's Special Events Management Unit gave Las Vegas Police Department some specialized equipment for monitoring the week-long event, as long as LVPD provided follow up reports.

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  1. Re:I really just don't get it. by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> I can't really think of any other of the founding fathers as being weird, tho.

    That's the strange thing about modern times. Guys who risked their lives, their families and everything they had on an idea are now considered stodgy and mainstream, whereas some random dude with tattoos, dreads and an iPhone working a zero-risk job at Taco John's is considered to be a "free thinker."

    Read up 'em - you might be surprised.

  2. Re:I really just don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    fought off several aggressors (including the British again in 1812)

    When England was in the middle of squashing Napoleon, the USA decided it was time to invade Canada. And you classify the British as the aggressors ?