US Dumbest. Anti-Terror Tech. Ever? | Danger Room | Wired.com
When historians look back at the first few years of the post-9/11 era, they’ll likely recognize it as a Silver Age of military technology hucksterism. From Rube Goldberg lightning guns to algorithms that allegedly found jihadists by their pizza orders, Washington gorged itself in an all-you-can-eat buffet of half-baked terror-fighters.
But even in this smorgasbord of silliness, one project stands out as a signature dish, Aram Roston reports for Playboy: a con man’s claim that he could find hidden in Al Jazeera broadcasts “secret bar codes” from Osama Bin Laden’s minions, telling “terrorists the terms of their next mission, laying out the latitudes and longitudes of targets, sometimes even flight numbers and dates.”
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