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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.
Argh!
ok, i missed the other comments, sorry dudes.
IT'S TRUE! SHOCKER!
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Dammit..... I KNEW the first post was going to turn out to be yet another incarnation of the "Soviet Russia" joke, as soon as I saw this news item appear.
READY.
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You mean something like this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pipelinemanager
Some of the 'boys' must have Mod points today.
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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?
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Slashdot editors should write some kind of simple program to check for (recent) similar documents (slashdot text + linked articles itself).
This really isn't too hard thing to do. Just read a book about statistical natural language processing or hire someone etc. They maybe even some opensource software doing this kind of things somewhere.
> In fact if you look at the Palestinians against the Jews (and the Jews against
> the Palestinians), Haiti, El Salvador, Somalia, Bosnia - it still seems to work
> that way in most places.
So you agree with me, then, that the OP has no standpoint from which to criticise the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack. At least the Nazi's weren't being funded by Americans and/or companies based in America. Apart from IBM. And Ford. And...
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.
And WineX is capitalism or what?
no, see, its a phonetic joke. Line X and Linux have the same pronunciation.
Yakov Smirnoff Originally came up with that line. In soviet russia.. Road Forks YOU! haha (thats why I love Family guy, sooo many nods to old things ( like that lode runner eps with Brian))