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Chris Williams
\nThe Register<\/a>
\nSaturday, Dec 26th, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

A con man fooled US spooks into grounding international
\nflights by selling them \u201ctechnology\u201d to decode al-Qaeda
\nmessages hidden in TV broadcasts, it\u2019s claimed.<\/p>\n

A long and highly entertaining Playboy article explains that in
\n2003, 50-year-old Dennis Montgomery was chief technology officer at
\nReno, Nevada-based eTreppid Technologies. The firm began as a video
\ncompression developer, but Montgomery took it in new and bizarre
\ndirections.<\/p>\n

He reportedly convinced the CIA that he had software that could
\ndetect and decrypt \u201cbarcodes\u201d in broadcasts by Al Jazeera,
\nthe Qatari news station.<\/p>\n

The Company was apparently impressed enough to set up its own secure
\nroom at the firm to do what Montgomery called \u201cnoise
\nfiltering\u201d. He somehow produced \u201creams of data\u201d
\nconsisting of geographic coordinates and flight numbers.<\/p>\n

Full article here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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