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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by smabie on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:55AM (#23524924)
That's why he said apocryphal..
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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by dean177 on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:58AM (#23526391)
Which means they are of doubtful origin. There is no doubt that this particular story is a complete fabrication
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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by jolux on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:59AM (#23526811)
Yup. Completely false. The Russians ended up using that pen too or their own version of it; the Americans started off using pencils but it turns out having electrically conductive graphite shavings floating around is bad for electronic equipment.
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