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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 11:29 AM Mar 2013

Beware of Urban Explorers....

National Counterterrorism Center: Urban Exploration Offers Insight on Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

Urban Explorers (UE)—hobbyists who seek illicit access to transportation and industrial facilities in urban areas—frequently post photographs, video footage, and diagrams on line that could be used by terrorists to remotely identify and surveil potential targets. Advanced navigation and mapping technologies, including three dimensional modeling and geo-tagging, could aid terrorists in pinpointing locations in dense urban environments. Any suspicious UE activity should be reported to the nearest State and Major Area Fusion Center and to the local FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

http://publicintelligence.net/nctc-urban-exploration/


Urban Explorers is a network devoted to the beauty of abandonment and ruin. With their motto in mind – “Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints” – pictures and videos are found all throughout the site, captured by explorers worldwide who seek desolated buildings, ghost towns, and any other structures formerly inhabited by people. Users of this site can discover a very real forgotten world filled with ghosts of the past – a defining element of “post-apocalyptia”.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-sites-prepare-apocalypse/


3 Sites To Fully Prepare You For The Coming Apocalypse

Whatever your flavor of apocalypse may be, it’s always a good idea to remind yourself that it might happen, so you really should ask yourself, “What am I going to do?” Naturally, in the case that humanity brings upon its own destruction, it’s quite likely that the Internet won’t exist, but that doesn’t mean it can’t prepare you while it’s still here!

Get ready to grab your rad-suit, crank up the chain-saw, or check the batteries of your Geiger counter. MakeUseOf is venturing out into the wastelands with these three sites.

Go there now (scroll down to third section for Urban Explorers)

http://www.urbanexplorers.net/

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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
6. "Oh, those are Mr. Lebowski's children, so to speak."
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:08 PM
Mar 2013

"Different mothers, huh? So racially he's pretty cool?"

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
11. Inner city children of promise but without the necessary means for a -
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:34 PM
Mar 2013

necessary means for a higher education.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
2. I wonder if terrorists would be interested in the following urbex I've done
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 11:37 AM
Mar 2013








Unless terrorists become members of urbex sites, there is no way to, usually, glean info from the posts or photos posted. Urbexer's generally closely guard the locations of their finds because they don't want taggers, scrappers or authorities to know the location.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,175 posts)
7. Well, you just never know how much valuable terraist information can be gleaned
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:11 PM
Mar 2013

about 20th/21st-century infrastructure from pictures of an abandoned 19th-century farmhouse or grain mill or factory!

How do these poor people ever leave their houses without dragging along a fainting couch?

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. What jumped out at me in the OP was: "Fusion Center"
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 11:44 AM
Mar 2013

I doubt that many people would be able to report anything suspicious to
"the nearest State and Major Area Fusion Center and to the local FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. "
They don't seem to be in my phone book.

But, being curious, I did look up Fusion Center, and damned if they do not have a lobbying group,
all nice and patriotic looking.
Presenting:
The National Fusion Center Association !
http://www.nfcausa.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

And, if you click on "locations", this map of all the Centers in the USA comes up:

http://www.nfcausa.org/default.aspx/MenuItemID/117/MenuGroup/Home+New.htm

The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
4. Yep. Have posted about them here off and on over the years
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 11:50 AM
Mar 2013

They are growing. Bet their budgets are not being cut....

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)
9. A favorite hobby of mine...
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:23 PM
Mar 2013

My photographs of decaying urban infrastructure and graffiti are not aiding and abetting terrorism whatsoever.

Google Sat/Earth, anyone...?

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