Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Kidnapped Aussie uses Google to verify identity and secure release
An abducted Aussie journalist convinced his captors that he wasn't a spook by directing them to a search-engine.
[H]is captors agreed to release him after they were convinced he was not working for the CIA or a US contractor...Link (via Waxy)"They Googled him and then went onto a web site - either his own or his book publisher's web site, I don't know which one - and saw that he was who he was, and that was instrumental in letting him go, I think, or swinging their decision," he told AP news agency.
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