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Clear skies for Area 51 hacker
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2005-01-27

Federal prosecutors formally dropped charges this month against an amateur astronomer who exposed a buried surveillance network surrounding the Air Force's mysterious "Area 51" air base in Nevada.

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Clear skies for Area 51 hacker 2005-02-02
Concerned
It is the responsibility of every citizen to ensure that the government does not outstep the boudaries of it's constitutional constraints. The 1st amendment provides freedom of the press, and this includes some guy in Nevada posting a website. If I found a sensor in my backyard marked "U.S Government Property", you can bet Uncle Sam would never find it again. And you can bet everyone would hear about it. No matter how "lofty" the rationale of some offical for putting it there, it does not belong there. Sticking sensors wherever you feel like it under some blanket guise of "national security" just does not get it. And dragging people into court who find them is just plain criminal.

"Any people who trade a little freedom for a little security will soon have little of either." -Thomas Jefferson

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Clear skies for Area 51 hacker 2005-02-05
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