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After 9/11, a clever MIT undergrad grabbed some form of alqaeda.net. Any email sent to the address went to the corresponding @mit.edu email address. You could e
by blip54321 4y ago
After 9/11, a clever MIT undergrad grabbed some form of alqaeda.net. Any email sent to the address went to the corresponding @mit.edu email address. You could email professor_alice@alqaeda.net, and it'd arrive at professor_alice@mit.edu.
Undergrads sent emails like that for the lols. Recipients got freaked out they'd end up on some government watch list.
- thesausageking 4y agoReminds me of the "iced coffee obama nsa inside job syria" Venmo payment https://www.gawker.com/the-words-that-will-get-you-in-trouble-on-venmo-1738331672 https://www.gawker.com/the-words-that-will-get-you-in-troubl...
- matheusmoreira 4y agoThat's terrifying. This is the number one reason why cryptocurrencies liie Monero were invented.
- hyperdimension 4y agoAnd don't ever, ever mention Iran.
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- Sebguer 4y agoThere's much more trivial ways (and less funny ones) like just dropping a name from: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/ https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
- andorov 4y agoI got flagged for paying a friend back for "cuban food"...