Software fraudster 'fooled CIA' into terror alert

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 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>
>
> --
> Bob Poortinga  K9SQL
> Bloomington, IN  US



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