Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
Software

Submission + - Feds Pay Millions for Bogus Spy Software (nytimes.com)

gosuperninja writes: The U.S. Government paid tens of millions of dollars to Dennis Montgomery because he said that he had created software that could decode secret Al-Qaeda messages embedded in Al-Jazeera broadcasts. Even though the CIA figured out that his software was fraud in 2003, other defense agencies continued to believe in it. To date, the government has not prosecuted Montgomery most likely to save itself the embarrassment.

Slashdot Top Deals

That does not compute.

Working...