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5th June 2004 Archive

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  • FBI's terror trawl and Emergent computer goofs

    Letters 30 degrees of Bacon sandwich

    Our story analyzing why technology let the FBI down - Emergent cheese-sandwich detector enlisted in War on Terror - with catastrophic results, drew an impressive mailbag. If you recall, the Spanish authorities found a fingerprinted bag full of explosives a week before the Madrid bombings, and the FBI was convinced it had their …

    Letters 5 Jun 2004, 00:33

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