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Geek Culture / Spam text kills suicide bomber (saves hundreds)

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Fatal Berserker
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 13:26 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2011 13:28
A russian suicide bomber rigged her phone to blow when it recieved a text. But it recieved a spam text and detonated early, before she got to her target...
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/28/5942012-did-spam-text-kill-a-russian-suicide-bomber

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8284279/Black-Widow-attempted-New-Year-Moscow-attack-but-blew-herself-up-by-mistake.html
Kinda funny really.

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 18:45
The last thing she read was "Is your penis too small?..." *BOOM!*


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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 19:18
So spam is an anti-terrorist function? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 21:14
I read several articles about this. I think the spam part was made up later. I live in russia so i heard about this earlier than american media published it and when i read it it never mentiond any spam. it was the cellphone operatior sending a text wishing a happy new years. That cellphone was used as a detonator. i think the whole spam thing was made up later.

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 21:25
@PAGAN, I'd consider that spam I don't know anyone at my phone network, they don't know me, they don't need to wish me happy new years xD

Still, pretty stupid on her part, you'd have thought she'd be more careful with a detonator xD

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 21:41
yeah i guess, but for some reason i wouldnt consider it spam if its from your phone operator. if its some advertisement (which we get a lot of) its definatley spam

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2011 21:43 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2011 21:48
And I'm sure many are thankful that she was stupid. Now, if all suicide bombers were like her, people may be less paranoid.

I suppose I'm glad I'm not a suicide bomber, I get Spam texts from O2 all of the time.

Maybe I'll try another way to kill Bruno Mars, maybe I'll have him catch a grenade for me or something. (See, I'm being original by not saying Justin Beiber!)

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 00:41 Edited at: 4th Feb 2011 00:42
If she was a suicide bomber, why would she use her cellphone as a detonator?

Quote: "Maybe I'll try another way to kill Bruno Mars, maybe I'll have him catch a grenade for me or something."

Hehe. I see what you did there.

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 00:47
Bruno Mars creeps me out. Can you imagine him on a first date? "You're the most beautiful thing in the world ever, and I'd die for you. if you asked me, right now, I'd jump in front of a bus, shoot myself, because I LOVE YOU!!!"

I think he overdid the commitment thing girls love.

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 00:48
Bruno Mars is all talk :p

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 01:56
Quote: "If she was a suicide bomber, why would she use her cellphone as a detonator?"

because its the most obvios thing to work as a remote detonator. a suicide bomber dosent always blow up themselves. there is a person with a detonator watching the suicide bomber, and explodes them when he thinks the conditions are good, (lots of people around) and what if suddenly the suicide bomber chickens out or has a change of heart? if that happens the remote detonator can still get the job done. I heard about this on the radio. As for being paranoid, in russia it kinda became an annual thing. people get used to it but they just say its never gonna happen to me. We had 2subway train bombings in spring and less than a year later we had the airport bombing. we have these every year. My grandpa once in 2003 avoided a terrorist bombing (also in the subway) by 5 minutes. left the station and 5 minutes later it was blown up

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 02:19
Don't mention Bruno Mars, I have to listen to that crap all day at work. I seriously think some of the guys I work with are gay.


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Quote: "Don't mention Bruno Mars, I have to listen to that crap all day at work. I seriously think some of the guys I work with are gay.
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Turn up the Pendulum.

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 03:36
who the hell is Bruno Mars....

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 09:33
Quote: "Don't mention Bruno Mars, I have to listen to that crap all day at work. I seriously think some of the guys I work with are gay."


So do I, so you can understand my hatred. One top of that, I have to listen to Black Eyed Peas with their awful awful rendition of that Dirty Dancing song.

I am so tempted to just plug my iPod in, but it'd scare away customers. Mind you, I had a couple of pagans in a couple of weeks ago, they were two of my nicest customers, I'm sure they'd dig my taste. We could do with more of them.

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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 11:26
LOL[b][u][i]

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@ShaunRW
i dont think this guy understands what pianos are used for.

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speaking of terrorists (closer to the topic) like you know how in america there is a whole conspiracy theory floating around the 9/11? well they say that these terrorist attacks in russia every year are also government sponsored. the thing is every terrorist attack kills somewhere from 30-100 people. small compared to sept 11th. if these terrorists were actually serios and bent on killing as many people as they could, they could easily do it. because frankly the people in charge are all higly eductaed, finished univercities and if you go by that logic, if they really want to create terror they can easily do it on the scale of of sept 11th here in moscow. My friend liked to do urban exploration which includes infiltrating high security areas that are off limits. For example, the subway tunnels. they have tons of security there infared sensors, motion sensors, cameras and stuff. My friend with his friends, infiltrated the subway tunnels multiple times, they know how to evade the security and fool infared sensors. If this guy who is a comlete rookie at this can infiltrate such a high security area unnoticed, what says the terrorists cant train some of their men to do that, plant multiple bombs along the track and when a train is passing by (during rush hour when its full of people) they can remotley blow up a whole train inside a tunnel trapping people and causing maximum casualties. instead we have these random small suicide bombings in crouded areas now and then. They say these are just small low casualty terrorist attacks designed by the government to boost the ratings of putin and giving more excuses to do another crackdown in the south and have the region mantain military presence. But latley it seemes they are going a step further with this. We dont have a patriot act or new laws for opressing people (trade freedom for security) but latley it seemes we are slowly going there, and knowing this country, in a few years we will surpass the level of internal security they have in us or uk and use the pretext to establish an opressive dictatorship. I am kinda surprised this didnt happen sooner, proboly because the people in the top already had all the power they wanted at the time, but it seemes they are getting greedy. this conspiracy theory is pretty much unknown in most of russia people believe they are actual terrorists and it was all good. But if anyone remembers Litvinenko who was poisoned by radioactive substance in britan? well its because of him this theory even exists. He is former KGB from Putins clan actually. he resigned because he didnt like the ethics under which KGB worked under especially in the late 90s. he later fled to UK because he knew about stuff and kgb wanted to kill him. He revealed that the apartment bombings in 1999 were not terrorist attacks but were organised and staged by the KGB to boost Putins raiting and give him an excuse to go to another war in Chechneya. I watched an intervew that Litvinenko gave as well as his relatives who also fled to UK (his father in law was associated with the elite of the south where all the terrorist orgonisations were at) This video was banned in russia but thank god for the internet. so this stuff just gets me thinking id all these terrorist attacks are just a small reminder to people of russia on who is the enemy. Because in many cases a country always needs to have an enemy to keep people united and for profit as well. It is however a well known fact that during the first chechneyan war, certain people in the russian government supplied the chechens with weapons so the war is mantained. Also on many occasions, the #1 terrorists back then in charge of the seperatists Shamil Basaev,Ramil Dudaev, Aslan Mashadov (all former high ranking soviet generals) the military found their location (trough cellphone wiretaps and sattelites) on multiple occasions. and every time it was just a matter of minutes to call in a few gunships to wipe them all out. then the guy in charge of the operation gets a phone call from kremlin ordering to call off the airstrike letting them get away. it was only untill mid 2000s untill they were all wiped out one by one. I guess it was getting too risky to keep them alive or something as they could have easily spilled some beans about this stuff (in mid 2000s Shamil Bassaev gave an interview to BBC)

wow i need to like write a book or something'

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Posted: 5th Feb 2011 13:00 Edited at: 5th Feb 2011 13:00
Quote: "speaking of terrorists (closer to the topic) like you know how in america there is a whole conspiracy theory floating around the 9/11? well they say that these terrorist attacks in russia every year are also government sponsored. the thing is every terrorist attack kills somewhere from 30-100 people. small compared to sept 11th.

if these terrorists were actually serios and bent on killing as many people as they could, they could easily do it. because frankly the people in charge are all higly eductaed, finished univercities and if you go by that logic, if they really want to create terror they can easily do it on the scale of of sept 11th here in moscow. My friend liked to do urban exploration which includes infiltrating high security areas that are off limits.

For example, the subway tunnels. they have tons of security there infared sensors, motion sensors, cameras and stuff. My friend with his friends, infiltrated the subway tunnels multiple times, they know how to evade the security and fool infared sensors. If this guy who is a comlete rookie at this can infiltrate such a high security area unnoticed, what says the terrorists cant train some of their men to do that, plant multiple bombs along the track and when a train is passing by (during rush hour when its full of people) they can remotley blow up a whole train inside a tunnel trapping people and causing maximum casualties. instead we have these random small suicide bombings in crouded areas now and then.

They say these are just small low casualty terrorist attacks designed by the government to boost the ratings of putin and giving more excuses to do another crackdown in the south and have the region mantain military presence. But latley it seemes they are going a step further with this. We dont have a patriot act or new laws for opressing people (trade freedom for security) but latley it seemes we are slowly going there, and knowing this country, in a few years we will surpass the level of internal security they have in us or uk and use the pretext to establish an opressive dictatorship. I am kinda surprised this didnt happen sooner, proboly because the people in the top already had all the power they wanted at the time, but it seemes they are getting greedy. this conspiracy theory is pretty much unknown in most of russia people believe they are actual terrorists and it was all good.

But if anyone remembers Litvinenko who was poisoned by radioactive substance in britan? well its because of him this theory even exists. He is former KGB from Putins clan actually. he resigned because he didnt like the ethics under which KGB worked under especially in the late 90s. he later fled to UK because he knew about stuff and kgb wanted to kill him. He revealed that the apartment bombings in 1999 were not terrorist attacks but were organised and staged by the KGB to boost Putins raiting and give him an excuse to go to another war in Chechneya. I watched an intervew that Litvinenko gave as well as his relatives who also fled to UK (his father in law was associated with the elite of the south where all the terrorist orgonisations were at) This video was banned in russia but thank god for the internet. so this stuff just gets me thinking id all these terrorist attacks are just a small reminder to people of russia on who is the enemy.

Because in many cases a country always needs to have an enemy to keep people united and for profit as well. It is however a well known fact that during the first chechneyan war, certain people in the russian government supplied the chechens with weapons so the war is mantained. Also on many occasions, the #1 terrorists back then in charge of the seperatists Shamil Basaev,Ramil Dudaev, Aslan Mashadov (all former high ranking soviet generals) the military found their location (trough cellphone wiretaps and sattelites) on multiple occasions. and every time it was just a matter of minutes to call in a few gunships to wipe them all out.

then the guy in charge of the operation gets a phone call from kremlin ordering to call off the airstrike letting them get away. it was only untill mid 2000s untill they were all wiped out one by one. I guess it was getting too risky to keep them alive or something as they could have easily spilled some beans about this stuff (in mid 2000s Shamil Bassaev gave an interview to BBC)
"


I put that into some paragraphs for you
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Posted: 5th Feb 2011 13:24
This kind of thing happened in Chile too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_2502000/2502983.stm

I have heard, and who knows if it's true, but I've heard that this car was assaulted on by Pinochet's own military with nobody in it. It was then hauled out and put up as a monument to Pinochet being able to survive such a "ruthless" attack.

It was an entirely fabricated attack.

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