Pokémon Go Led to a Surge in Trespassers on Military Bases

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Pokémon Go Led to a Surge in Trespassers on Military Bases
January 2, 2020
https://futurism.com/the-byte/pokemon-go-trespassers-military-bases

CBC News has obtained hundreds of pages of documents detailing the Canadian military’s efforts to overcome an unexpected adversary: Pokémon Go.

Within days of the game’s July 2016 launch, players reportedly began wandering onto military property in pursuit of its virtual creatures and landmarks — and based on the newly released documents, the unexpected intrusion left the military hilariously out of its depth.

“Plse advise the Commissionaires that apparently Fort Frontenac is both a PokeGym and a PokeStop,” Maj. Jeff Monaghan of Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Kingston wrote in one email. “I will be completely honest in that I have not [sic] idea what that is.”
“The game’s premise seems to be going to the ‘PokeStops/Gyms’ to collect ‘Pokemon’s’ (we should almost hire a 12-year-old to help us out with this),” security expert David Levenick of CFB Borden wrote in another message.
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