Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Giant Squid
This link is from 2004, but still….
Peruvian police say they have seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States.
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anonymous canuck • February 1, 2008 5:08 PM
… or covert channel.
maupassant • February 2, 2008 1:07 AM
What is it with you and squid, Bruce? Were you traumatized by a dish of calimari as a child?
Anonymous • February 2, 2008 10:18 AM
frozen coke pops were a treat when we were young kids. Now!!!
Ari Maniatis • February 2, 2008 9:09 PM
At last! You’ve managed to combine security and squid in the same post. Now if you could only find university studies of the mathematical ability of cephalopods and how schools of them might be harnessed to break cipher.
RonK • February 3, 2008 12:59 AM
@ maupassant
What is it with you and squid, Bruce? Were
you traumatized by a dish of calimari as a child?
Nah, he calculates that squid have the best chance of finding vulnerabilities in *fish.
Dr Octopus • February 3, 2008 6:22 AM
In the uk, that would have a street value of 28 million squid.
Terry Cloth • February 5, 2008 4:01 PM
Pooh. We don’t get to see the actual squid.
anonymous • February 28, 2008 9:49 AM
we always hade coke popsicles in the summer when i was younger
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Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.
Carlo Graziani • February 1, 2008 4:42 PM
Gives a new meaning to the term “Cavity Search”…