On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:43:51 -0800, Gregg wrote:

"The US Government paid tens of millions of dollars to Dennis Montgomery
because he said he had created software that could decode secret
Al-Qaeda messages embedded in Al-Jazeera broadcasts. Even though the CIA
figured out that his software was fraud in 2003, other defense agencies
continued to believe in it. To date, the government has not prosecuted
Montgomery, most likely to save itself the embarrassment."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html

Tsk...and to think they could have had baxcode for free!