Begin forwarded message:
From: Bob Poortinga <k9sql@k9sql.us>
Date: December 24, 2009 1:19:08 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Software fraudster 'fooled CIA' into terror alert
For IP if appropriate:
This is almost too much to believe.
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Software fraudster 'fooled CIA' into terror alert
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/24/cia_montgomery/>
A con man fooled US spooks into grounding international flights by
selling them "technology" to decode al-Qaeda messages hidden in TV
broadcasts, it's claimed.
A long and highly entertaining Playboy article explains that in 2003,
50-year-old Dennis Montgomery was chief technology officer at Reno,
Nevada-based eTreppid Technologies. The firm began as a video
compression developer, but Montgomery took it in new and bizarre
directions.
He reportedly convinced the CIA that he had software that could detect
and decrypt "barcodes" in broadcasts by Al Jazeera, the Qatari news
station.
...
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Here is a link to the Playboy article:
<http://tinyurl.com/ybozckk>
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Bob Poortinga K9SQL
Bloomington, IN US