Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes 147
The Register, citing this Playboy article, reports that a Nevada man named Dennis Montgomery was able in 2003 to connive his way into a position of respectability at the CIA on the basis of his company's claimed ability, using software, to "detect and decrypt 'barcodes' in broadcasts by Al Jazeera, the Qatari news station." Montgomery was CTO of Reno-based eTreppid Technologies, which produced bucketloads of data purported to represent "geographic coordinates and flight numbers" hidden in these broadcasts. All of which, it seems, was hokum, finally debunked in cooperation with a branch of the French intelligence service — but not, says the article, before the fabricated information, chalked up to "credible sources," was used as justification to ground some international flights, and even evacuate New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
Playboy article? I guess the real news here is that someone actually reads playboy for the articles. Who knew?
Re:Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
Playboy article? I guess the real news here is that someone actually reads playboy for the articles. Who knew?
Naked girls, software, terrorists, fraud - enough to make a nerd reach new emotional heights.
you aint seen nothing yet (Score:2, Funny)
articles? (Score:3, Funny)