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"Bomb dowsing" debacle in Iraq

  • 28-01-2010 12:40PM
    #1
    pH
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8481774.stm

    Finally the UK government seems to be acting (albeit belatedly), how one guy in a farmhouse managed to sell bomb detectors to Iraq is an interesting question, though I suspect a fair amount of back-handers will be involved.

    What horrifies me more is how this could have played out, surely there's as much "proof" that these are frauds as there is of chiropractic, yet Simon Singh calls the latter "bogus" and ends up on the losing end of libel.

    If these bomb makers had been cleverer I'm sure they could have wrapped the device in DRM and anti-reverse engineering agreements, making it illegal even for the BBC to try and figure out what they were doing.

    If these guys had spent just a few more euro on their devices, wrapped it in DRM and had better libel lawyers this might be playing out differently.


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