Area 51 ‘caches’

[arffer]

Check out this article. The important section is the second paragraph under the Sniffing Out Surveillance section:

Over the following month and half, Clark and Arnu engaged in a kind of geocaching game with the Men in Black, systematically sniffing out the road sensors with the frequency counter, exhuming them, and opening them up. They discovered that each device was coded with three-digit identifier that could be read off an internal dial, allowing Arnu to make a list that correlated each unit’s I.D. number with its GPS coordinates…

The government cheats though, these ‘caches’ are buried!

[This message has been edited by CacheCows (edited 05-26-2004).]

[sbukosky]

Very interesting! I have many thoughts about this. First, I’m pleased to see two of my old hidden transmitter hunter friends, in addition to Lee who we hear from too infrequently, have joined our hobby. One of the hunts we went on was very similar to the sensors being described. This was a transmitter buried under some bushes and the antenna was hidden inside of a hollow reed from the area! I was first to find using a signal sniffer that I homebrewed.

I am troubled by people like Clark who believe that the government doesn’t have the right to protect matters of national security. Were Mr. Clark a geocacher, I’m sure he would be upset if his cache were plundered or otherwise publicly identified as to render it open to vandalism.

Mr. Clark seems to be of the vein of people believing that if they can defeat some technology, they have a right to do it. As I type this, the IT people at work have posted this message. “We are being hit by an email virus – WORM_BAGLE.AB…”

I put Mr. Clark in the same category of criminal as virus writers. Nothing wrong with being curious. It depends on how you implement that curiousity.

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