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Re: Strange phone number: asks for Agent Code, gives encoded coordinates.

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Post by charlieok » Wed, Sep 12, 2012, 5:10 AM UTC

david_shaw wrote: post #28

In my opinion, there's no way that this is an actual intelligence or military operated switch. I'm not firm in this belief because of the open nature of a phone line like this (that part seems fine), but because there is no reason for a real switch to use actual terminology like "agent" and "compromised." This reminds me a lot of a Capture the Flag contest: you know you're not really hacking an intelligence agency, b…

Oh, I don't know. Sometimes Capture the Flag gets to be a pretty big deal...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/world/middleeast/anger-ove...

Re: Strange phone number: asks for Agent Code, gives encoded coordinates.

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Post by gfosco » Wed, Sep 12, 2012, 5:29 AM UTC

jey wrote: post #29

Sounds like a viral marketing stunt or alternate reality game.

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Re: Strange phone number: asks for Agent Code, gives encoded coordinates.

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Post by junto » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 7:16 PM UTC

Reminds me of war dialling UK 0800 numbers back in the 90's. There were some interesting ones out there (allegedly). I seem to remember, "Welcome to the NASA Employee hotline. Please enter your access code". Other ones that just gave cryptic greetings similar to this. Some that just repeated numbers over and over in a loop.