Two takeaways from this. First, the half-a-bil price tag is absurd and I don't see how it's remotely justifiable. Second, this is yet another reason why Real Player sucks.
Nothing new here. Watch this, for examples, https://twitter.com/MrTonyMan/status/766660512566435840/phot...
The link to the original source is dead; strange.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/10/02/fake-news-a...
How reliable is thedailybeast?
>> The third and most sensitive programme described by Wells was the production of fake al Qaeda propaganda films. He told the Bureau how the videos were made. He was given precise instructions: “We need to make this style of video and we’ve got to use al Qaeda’s footage,” he was told. “We need it to be 10 minutes long, and it needs to be in this file format, and we need to encode it in this manner.”
US marines would take the CDs on patrol and drop them in the chaos when they raided targets. Wells said: “If they’re raiding a house and they’re going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, they’d just drop an odd CD there.”
The CDs were set up to use Real Player, a popular media streaming application which connects to the internet to run. Wells explained how the team embedded a code into the CDs which linked to a Google Analytics account, giving a list of IP addresses where the CDs had been played.
Why is no one held to account? If this is not illegal, fine, but can we have a disclaimer with the news saying that it probably isn't accurate??
Why is this information now public? As far as I can see, there's no benefit to releasing this info, and there's certainly possible detriment.
"US marines would take the CDs on patrol and drop them in the chaos when they raided targets. Wells said: “If they’re raiding a house and they’re going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, they’d just drop an odd CD there.”
The CDs were set up to use Real Player, a popular media streaming application which connects to the internet to run. Wells explained how the team embedded a code into the CDs which linked to a Google Analytics account, giving a list of IP addresses where the CDs had been played."