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What's your opinion on the 9/11 text pager messages being released?

Asked by rangerr (15765points) November 26th, 2009

From this news site:
Over half a million intercepted pager texts from that day are being unveiled by Wikileaks. It’s intended to be a virtual re-enactment of 9/11, as they’re being posted to the organization’s website and Twitter feed between 3 AM Eastern Time today and 3 AM tomorrow, at the same times the pages were sent.

Here’s the website they are all on
Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center

I started scanning through the messages yesterday as they were being released, and I really feel that this is a horrible idea.
Not only are everyone’s pager and cell numbers out there, but addresses too.

A lot of the messages are computer-generated ones about failing systems, but there’s also a lot of “Be safe” and “call me, I need to know you’re okay”
But there are also some like the one I stopped reading on: “Goodbye my love, I’ll miss you.”

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