Cake and biscuits to the helpdesk! - robert, 17/02/2006, 12:24
<censored> 15:07:03 16-02-06 FLEX-A ALPHA 3200 15:06-37 Can you please bring cake and biscuits to the helpdesk urgently
That was the message that blasted over the country on a frequency around 153MHz. What helpdesk? Why do they urgently require cake and biscuits? We'll never know. This is just one of the many messages I've watched float over the UK's pager systems in plain text, to the entire country. Most of it is boring dribble, "CALL FRED 2231" etc. Some of it is interesting or amusing however and some of it is just pure worrying. The worrying messages include gov. messages and a LOT of automated server messages, some containing user IDs and passwords. The real shock was seeing e-mail addresses and server names belonging to the company I work for appearing. Some interest is in the large amount of train related messages, especially the Tube. If you watch the pager messages you get to know about delays and cancellations first! You also get to know about signal and point failures and also SPADs - which there are a lot of! There are a few fools who have all their personal e-mail forwarded over the system. I now know who they are, their Bebo profile, what they're buying on eBay and their UserID and password for VoipCheap. Scary. In this day and age I find it strange pagers are still being used. Perhaps it's because their cost is so low now. Hundreds of people over the country are, and ...
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