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Strategies & Market Trends : Stock Attack II - A Complete Analysis
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To: Frederick Langford who wrote (19062)9/17/2001 8:29:49 PM
From: Kip518  Read Replies (1) of 52237
 
If the terrorists took a story line from Tom Clancy and bin Laden shorted stocks before causing them to collapse (story line from Grisham's Runaway Jury) did they also learn to fly using MSFT's Flight Simulator? American culture was turned on itself.

Many commentators are making the point that this was a strangely low-tech attack, since it did not involve sophisticated weaponry or lethal biological agents. But it was not low-tech so much as it took advantage of the everyday technologies that are so ubiquitous and, thus, practically invisible. A fully fueled plane in the wrong hands is a terrible weapon. So is a computer.

It is likely, for instance, that a popular flight simulator program helped the terrorists train for their mission. My Business 2.0 colleague Paul Kaihla obtained this information from an intelligence source working on the global hunt for those responsible for the bombings. Apparently, in Tuesday’s raids on homes in Florida where the attackers lived, authorities seized desktop and laptop computers. The computers were loaded with Microsoft’s Flight Simulator software, which can be obtained for $70 or less from any computer store.

The terrorists presumably used Flight Simulator to rehearse their attacks. Then they could program the global-positioning-system coordinates of the target buildings into the flight computers of the real planes and just put them on autopilot.

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