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I was in the Kruger this weekend, and our guide was lamenting that they've already lost over 340 rhino this year, and said poachers keep hacking their radios an
by EvanKnowles 4y ago
I was in the Kruger this weekend, and our guide was lamenting that they've already lost over 340 rhino this year, and said poachers keep hacking their radios and finding out where the rhino are, even when they change code they speak in.
I find the chance of that to be roughly zero though - clearly a bunch of the guides have been paid off. This isn't a problem tech can solve.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoSecret shopper and encrypted radios? If the radios can be trusted, you feed bad data to specific people and see when the poachers show up. Seems like there are some solutions. When I was in South Africa, the anti-poaching crews were clearly underpaid judging by their cloths, demeanor, and gear (old radios, and the ratty shotguns). If the job is so important it should be better paid.
- hackernewds 4y agoInstalling your people as guides > paying off poachers.