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How The CIA Duped The Soviets' Line X Network
sundling writes "There are interesting articles here(1) and here(2)
on software espionage against the Soviets.
In the Ronald Reagan era, a Soviet spy network (Line X Network) was looking to steal software to run oil pipelines. The CIA found out what they were trying to steal and fed them bogus versions. This is of course not the only time the CIA has done this.
... An article on the ethics of programming mentions this very topic and the moral implications." Update: 03/02 09:22 GMT by T : Oops -- this is a dupe.
You mean something like this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pipelinemanager
CmdrTaco? Is that you? :-p
Vote for a Man, Vote for Bush!
Not a liberatarian flipflop hippie.
Who modded this up to +5 so freakin fast? Who has unlimited mod points?
Who's going to mod me down to -1 within the next 2 minutes?
For answers to these questions and many more, watch this space.
It may have more to do with the composite makeup of the special paper and inks on the bill itself.
You can scorch a dry carrot to a charred pulp in a microwave if you leave it in there long enough (about three minutes in a glassful of water)... I've done this by accident.
The government doesn't need to embed chips in 20 dollar bills to track us, anyway. They're getting far more dirt on us by reading all our emails with Echelon/Carnivore.