[semi-extrinsic]

If you follow the "related reading" link on the bottom of TFA, you come to a page by Glenn Randers-Pehrson discussing how libpng deals with decompression bombs. On the bottom of that page you find the following curious note; anyone know what to make of it?

""" [Note for any DHS people who have stumbled upon this site, be aware that this is a cybersecurity issue, not a physical security issue. Feel free to contact me at <glennrp at users.sourceforge.net> to discuss it.] """

[saalweachter]

He's presumably had problems with people confusing "decompression bombs" with the blowy-up kind and sending him panicky e-mails.

[cperciva]

Another possibly apocryphal case of linguistic collisions resulting in governmental interest: When the MIT Media Lab started doing work on intelligent kitchen counters, they found that a lot of shadowy government agencies wanted to talk to them about their research into "counter intelligence".

[semi-extrinsic]

Ah, of course. That didn't even cross my mind, for some reason; bomb in this context was so obviously not a physical device.

[fennecfoxen]

What to make of it? Seems clear enough; he's (half-jokingly?) afraid that someone in the federal government will see the page and think "oh no! bombs! explosions! TERRORISM!" and identify more clearly that this is only a computer analogy.

[nerdy]

I think it is related to the word "bomb" existing on the page

[octatoan]

DHS = Department of Homeland Security?