Strange phone number: asks for Agent Code, gives encoded coordinates.
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#2After reading some of the speculation about it in the online forums, I thought "Wouldn't it be fun to set up something like this as a prank?" It almost sounds like something Woz would be into...
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#3seems like an awful lot of trouble just to change someone's voice mail message
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#4Sounds like an ARG. Reminds me of that "this is my milwaukee" thing.
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#5Sounds like an ARG. Reminds me of that "this is my milwaukee" thing.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to go with ARG. I would be beyond shocked if actual intelligence information were being transmitted over an unencrypted channel like this.
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#6Sounds like an ARG. Reminds me of that "this is my milwaukee" thing.
What is an ARG?
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#7Sounds like an ARG. Reminds me of that "this is my milwaukee" thing.
What is an ARG?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
(I didn't know either.)
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#9I hope a government or corporation would be smart enough not to use such a simplistic system to hide covert or confidential data. Then again most military drones were not encrypting their video feeds until rather recently, so who knows.
Re: Strange phone number: asks for Agent Code, gives encoded coordinates.
#10After reading some of the speculation about it in the online forums, I thought "Wouldn't it be fun to set up something like this as a prank?" It almost sounds like something Woz would be into...
It would be awesome and easy to set something like this up on twilio. I would have chosen a 702 area code though and when posting about it speculated that it had something to do with area 51. ;)