I'm afraid you're confused. Whoever this report was about, it wasn't me: * I'm not at Lucent Bell Labs. (I'm at AT&T Shannon Labs.) I'm not aware of any other Blaze at either AT&T or Lucent, however. * I'm not a mathematician. (I'm a computer scientist.) * I've not been to ORD, or any other midwestern airport, since August. (I do fly a lot, though). * I never been arrested. (I did accently set off the antitheft detector at a local bookstore once, but they let me go when I showed them my reciept). -matt
I heard a shocking thing on the radio a few minutes ago. I'm <*really*> sorry I didn't hear the whole report but I'm hoping someone here can shed some light,
According to the report a Bell Labs mathematician named Blaze was arrested at the O'Hare airport today, in some kind of FBI sting operation. I didn't hear the whole segment, but it sounded like it had something to do with passing classified (crypto?) information to a foreign government. The part of the report that I heard didn't say what kind of info or what he was charged with, but I got the impression that it was either some kind of ITAR thing or maybe espionage. They did say it was part of a long term sting operation and mentioned something (that I didn't hear clearly) about "other arrests" that either already happened or were likely to happen soon.
Was this Matt Blaze? It sure sounds like it must be. Is there a crackdown going on? Has anyone else been busted?
Does anyone have more complete information about this?
Jim
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