Maybe spam isn't totally bad

[smorris]

"A suicide bomber's plan to detonate explosives in Central Moscow on New Year's Eve was foiled when she received a spam text message that caused her deadly payload to blow up too early. A message wishing her a happy new year came hours before the unnamed woman was to set off her suicide belt near Red Square.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/k...e_skin;content

[dbhost]

Poetic justice is served...

[pelligrini]

I don't understand the 'suicide' descriptor if the explosive device was to be triggered by a cell phone. That's more like a remote trigger to be used once the device is left and the bomber is safely away.

Still cool that it happened the way it did.

[smorris]

It isn't uncommon for suicide vests to have a remote trigger for the case where the bomber becomes unwilling to detonate or the handler chooses it to go off in a different area then the one designated to the wearer.