+Ranger Boy Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Someone named travlerhuntter has discovered over 1300 travel bugs in three days. I noticed because one of them is one of mine that has been missing for years! How is that possible? Obviously they didn't actually discover them, but how would they get all those TB numbers? Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Someone named travlerhuntter has discovered over 1300 travel bugs in three days. I noticed because one of them is one of mine that has been missing for years! How is that possible? Obviously they didn't actually discover them, but how would they get all those TB numbers? There is already a thread about this: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=316255 Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 His page now shows no travlers found. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 How it's done: either manually or using some sort of bot, enter random numbers and log a discovery each time a hit is produced. Since the old bugs had simple "secret" codes consisting of all numbers, it's pretty easy to test 123456, 123457, 123458, etc. I got several watchlist notices yesterday under my player account for bugs I moved ten years ago. Back then, any time you moved a bug, it got added to your watchlist by default. So, they were old bugs with just numbers in their secret tracking codes. As to WHY someone thinks it's fun to do this, who knows? I would say "to earn points in some statistical exercise or to qualify for some challenge cache," but this account is a sock set up just to discover trackables. Most of us prefer playing our game in the real world. Quote Link to comment
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