Showing posts with label Technologhy Will Kill You. Show all posts
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Monday, January 31, 2011

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Via an article in Wired:

An unexpected and unwanted text message from a wireless company prematurely exploded a would-be suicide bomber’s vest bomb in Russia New Year’s Eve, inadvertently thwarting a planned attack on revelers in Moscow, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The would-be suicide bomber was planning to detonate a suicide belt bomb near Red Square, a plan that was foiled when her wireless carrier sent her an SMS while she was still at a safe house, setting off the bomb and killing her. The message reportedly wished her a Happy New Years, according to the report, which sourced the info from security forces in Russia.

I find that at once hilarious and a sign that our electronic devices are plotting our eventual destruction.