October 14, 2004
How to become a terrorist
An odd email arrived today. It begins:
We would like to introduce our new-born site, where you can shop around most wanted and needed items in your life. Our weapon section has wide range of hard-to-find machine guns, silencers, armour-piercing ammos and others.
First of all, let\’s check our 3 top-selling items:
1. Russian surface-to-air missle SA-14 \”Gremlin\” (upgraded analog of SS-16 \”Strela\”) from our supplies in Kazakhstan.
Due to high demand, it takes about 4 weeks to backorder that item.
Weight is 10,2 kg., lenght – 1427 mm. You can make a huge party and you can have tons of fun launching your \”Gremlin\”
with your buddies.
2. Israeli bestselling submashine-gun…
It’s just about 100% certainly a phony: There is no url given and the 800 number and fax numbers are both Verisign’s. The msg came through APNIC, an Asian ISP. If you think there’s anything more to this than a joke or a lame attempt to spur some bewildering calls to Verisign, let me know.