This is crazy, scary, sad and interesting all at the same time. I read through as many as I could bear the first night they were released. I don't much else about it but apparently somebody was capturing over the air text and recording it... and happened to record pager texts that follow the disaster in NYC.
Apparently, capturing this type of data was very easy and they've released the data to wikileaks.
http://911.wikileaks.org/
Apparently, capturing this type of data was very easy and they've released the data to wikileaks.
From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
The messages were broadcasted "live" to the global community — sychronized to the time of day they were sent. The first message was from 3AM September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, and the last, 24 hours later.
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
The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war.
http://911.wikileaks.org/