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John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message news:<f8NSpMAMau79Ew02@jmwa.demon.co.uk>...
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
> wrote (in <newscache$6shm6h$dxi$1@maggie.netlink.com.au>) about 'Crisis
> in Japan: defective electro caps round the world', on Thu, 5 Dec 2002:
> >
> >"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
> >news:yKLcLnCFao79EwSm@jmwa.demon.co.uk...
> >> I read in sci.electronics.design that DaveC <anon@bugus.net> wrote (in
> >> <0001HW.BA138B1300C3FA6A0A18B7D0@news.covad.net>) about 'Crisis in
> >> Japan: defective electro caps round the world', on Wed, 4 Dec 2002:
> >> >This story describes how several (5) electrolytic capacitor manufacturers
>  are
> >> >having problems with poor quality electrolyte. IBM and other purchasers
>  have
> >> >confirmed the huge impact on their business.
> >> >
> >> ><http://www.niccomp.com/taiwanlowesr.htm>
> >> >
> >> Has Al Quaeda been putting salt in it?
> >
> >Seems unlikely. They are reputed to be heavily dependent on PC for filing
> >and communication.
> >In theory you'd expect them to use Pretty Good Privacy, but what little I've
> >read suggests that they just use allusive plain text, which is harder to
> >pick out of the e-mail stream.
> >
> My point is that putting salt in the electrolyte is a very good way of
> making unreliable electrolytic caps. You don't need much - ppm levels,
> AIUI.

So what? My point was that it was a poor choice of terrorist
organisation. You'd want an organistion that doesn't like personal
computers - like the Chinese government - or is too stupid to realise
that it depends on personal computers - like the FBI or the CIA (these
last two automatically inserted to balance any suggestion of
anti-communist bias).

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen (actually in Melbourne, Australia, but home
again tomorrow)