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The Pizza Meter Wikipedia article was deleted two weeks ago https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=161127724 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/in
by jollyllama 3y ago
The Pizza Meter Wikipedia article was deleted two weeks ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=161127724 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid...
It was posted to this board as recently as 23 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805067
Here's an archive
https://archive.is/9ouXy https://archive.is/9ouXy
This archive explicitly mentions:
>Shortly after Meeks' comments were released, government offices no longer ordered from Domino's branches in Washington, opting to buy pizza at separate times or at different pizza joints.
Indicating that the Pentagon is well aware of monitoring of pizza shops as a way to infer the level of their activity. I therefore posit that this going viral is a hidden form of explicit communication, a signal they are intentionally sending, akin to the Iranians raising a black flag several months ago.
- JohnBooty 3y agoNah. The Pentagon is bounded on all sides by busy public highways! Oh, and giant parking lots for Pentagon employees. Any interested party can simply drive past and count the number of cars in the parking lots. Not a lot of mystery there! I assume countless foreign countries and news organizations do exactly that. The "Pizza Meter" is a fun... thing. It's a nice lesson on how data can "leak" even if nobody is actually actively disclosing information directly. But the idea of a foreign nation taking the "Pizza Meter" seriously (or, of the USA using it as a signal that might be taken seriously by our adversaries) is not a credible idea.