Chris Williams
The Register
Saturday, Dec 26th, 2009
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.
The Company was apparently impressed enough to set up its own secure
room at the firm to do what Montgomery called “noise
filtering”. He somehow produced “reams of data”
consisting of geographic coordinates and flight numbers.
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