From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 14 06:00:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA14598 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 06:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr02.primenet.com (tlambert@usr02.primenet.com [206.165.6.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA14590 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 06:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA02273; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 06:00:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710141300.GAA02273@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? To: jbryant@tfs.net Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:00:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710140531.AAA02530@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Oct 14, 97 00:31:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > the same government that managed to keep the f117a under wraps for 25 > years... despite all of the spies posing as ufo geeks at groom lake... Spies aren't very smart. Until I decided that there was really nothing very interesting out there (ah, misspent youth, where one will believe anything), I thought of sending in a mostly wooden and wind-up mechanical camoflaged robot whose electronics were only activated after the springs wound down, and would transmit pictures out on pseudo-random frequency shift to avoid jamming and lower the chances of detection. Depending on how far in the active curtain goes (they have to be able to communicate with their own equipment, after all, without interference and without triggering a security alert), once the electronics came active, you might even be able to RPV it in for a close look at the "UFO hangers" without it being detected by anything other than motion detectors... Real spies, of course, have synthetic aperture optical satellites in pairs and triplets in order to have very large effective optical telescopes pointed at the ground. Only the UFO nuts would need wooden wind-up robots disguised as sage-brush. ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.