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Seems like a good opportunity to deploy some honeypots.
by gtirloni 10y ago
Seems like a good opportunity to deploy some honeypots.
- AnsemWise 10y agoExactly what I was thinking. Side note, anyone available to go on a poacher hunt?
- zkms 10y agoI bring the SDR, you bring the rifle? :)
- gigatexal 10y agoI'm game. Let's go protect the wildlife. Though the best course of action would be finding ways to temper demand for poached animals. Easier said than done I know.
- emiliobumachar 10y agoHow about legalizing fraud in these narrow contexts, e.g., passing off fake ivory for the real thing is no longer illegal?
- problems 10y agoI doubt you'd get busted for passing off fake ivory even without such a change, probably not many people want to out themselves as an ivory buyer to authorities and media.
- gigatexal 10y agoEducation might also help rhinos from losing their tusks. Too many believe that the tusks help verility of all things. Without sounding ethnocentric these cultural beliefs are harmful and incongruent or unbecoming of an educated society
- jpfed 10y ago>I'm game Could be a problem if you're trying to hunt poachers.
- problems 10y agoDon't go poacher hunting yourself, arm and pay some locals to do it - help the community and all that, discourage the kind of desperation that leads to poaching in the first place.
- EGreg 10y agodoxx the poachers
- pvaldes 10y agoLooks more than an interception of the signal to find the animal. You could attract people to your honeypot place with a fake signal but to visit a place is not a proof of any crime. You can locate the emisor but not the receptor of the radio signal.
- weberc2 10y agoIt might be illegal to roam around various forests/preserves, particularly with a large caliber rifle and an ivory saw. It might also provide reasonable suspicion for searching the suspect's property to find further evidence of poaching. This is all speculation, of course.
- EGreg 10y agoIt's also not illegal to videotape the people coming to your premises, for identification.
- pvaldes 10y agoNot, but local people could be allowed to harvest firewood in the area for example. There are also a problem with the radius. People do not need to walk until your exact point to see that there is not a rhino in the area. They will typically use a spyglass. Maybe you would need to put a fake sleeping rhino model or so to have a real proof. Is a terrific idea in any case, I will love to see that acomplished, but there are some interesting technical obstacles to solve first.