"Expert" fooled by Bert Stego

Optimizzin Al-gorithm oa at acm.org
Thu Oct 18 13:47:16 PDT 2001


At 12:40 PM 10/18/01 -0700, auto301094 at hushmail.com wrote:
>
>Expert Warns Al Qaeda Planning Major Biological Attack
>
>DefenseWatch: One of the illustrations shows Osama bin Laden next to a
cartoon
>character from Sesame Street. What significance does that image have?
>
>The Sesame Street character that has appeared in a huge poster with
Osama bin
>Laden is significant in that it is yellow and has a mask-like quality.
And one
>can be certain that it was not placed on that huge poster by accident,
as some people have stupidly suggested. It is a signal.

Bert Stego?  Occam's razor, dude.


>Robert Koontz is an experimental nuclear physicist who earned his Ph.D.
in 1980
>at the University of Maryland. His specialties are experimental nuclear

>physics and high-energy physics, but he is also an expert in certain
areas of
>electronics, computer systems, software development and matters
relating to
>electronic intelligence gathering. Koontz has been a Staff Scientist at
the
>Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a Professor of
Physics at
>the University of South Dakota, and formerly was an instructor at the
National
>Security Agency.He lives in Pennsylvania.

He might be smart, and the rest of what he says is interesting,
but he has paranoid delusions W.R.T. Bert.





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