"US marines would take the CDs on patrol and drop them in the chaos when they raided targets. Wells said: “If they’re raiding a house and they’re going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, they’d just drop an odd CD there.”<p>The CDs were set up to use Real Player, a popular media streaming application which connects to the internet to run. Wells explained how the team embedded a code into the CDs which linked to a Google Analytics account, giving a list of IP addresses where the CDs had been played."
Two takeaways from this. First, the half-a-bil price tag is absurd and I don't see how it's remotely justifiable. Second, this is yet another reason why Real Player sucks.
Nothing new here. Watch this, for examples, <a href="https://twitter.com/MrTonyMan/status/766660512566435840/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MrTonyMan/status/766660512566435840/phot...</a>
The link to the original source is dead; strange.<p><a href="https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/10/02/fake-news-and-false-flags-how-the-pentagon-paid-a-british-pr-firm-500m-for-top-secret-iraq-propaganda/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/10/02/fake-news-a...</a>
Why is this information now public? As far as I can see, there's no benefit to releasing this info, and there's certainly possible detriment.