21 Oct
2008
21 Oct
'08
3:17 a.m.
Terrorists 'use child porn' to exchange information
Wow, this really is the myth that never dies, only the names of the participants change. This first cropped up in the mid-90s when it was being used by unknown foreign agents (today these would automatically be "the Chinese") to smuggle secrets out of US national labs, and every few years it crops up again with a few names changed to keep it topical. I'm surprised it took this long for it to be Al Qaeda's turn. Prediction for the future: At some point it'll be the turn of copyright infringers/file sharers to be the subjects of this myth (if they haven't already, and I missed it). Peter.