[geeks] Ahmed, the accidental terrorist?

[Rjtoegel]

Good one.  Especially that it was a repackaged Radio Shack clock!  I was very
good at spotting copied stuff during science fair time.  In a similar vein,  I
had a principal was extremely paranoid, especially after Columbine (amazing
how many faculty wanted to pop a paper bag outside his office).  At the start
of every school year, he would hand out the same "drawing" of what a potential
mail bomb would look like, wires, leaking liquid, package slightly crushed,
etc.  One year, I remarked to a fellow science teacher a little too loudly,
"Half of our science supplies arrive looking like that!"  Just about everybody
on the faculty laughed.  The pictures stopped.

Bob

On Sep 18, 2015, at 18:52, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> As some may be aware, there is a great firestorm brewing about the 14
year-old
> Texas boy that was 'arrested for bringing a clock to school'. As you may
> suspect, there is more to the story than most news outlets are reporting,
and
> without going too deep into this case, as a resident of Irving, TX I wanted
to
> share this much-hammered (and frequently down) link that reveals the truth
of
> this kid's 'invention' that earned him invites to internships at some great
> tech companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter), an invite to visit MIT, and,
most
> widely-reported, an invite to the White House (presumably so the President
can
> tell us that the MacArthur High School teachers acted 'stupidly'). I
expect,
> once this link hits the mainstream media, the fantasy Ahmed's family has
> created will fall apart dramatically.
>
> I apologize for injecting a bit of politics into the list, but I thought
the
> tech in the story was a compelling reason to share it here.
>
>
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-moha
> meds-clock-and-ourselves/
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