Users would have to type unfamiliar textstrings into the address bar of the their browser, at a time when consumers were increasingly relying on search engines and social media to navigate the internet.
That calculation is what the government alleged Mix was trying to hide from the U.S. government when he deleted those two text message strings leading to charges of obstruction of justice.
Former BP drilling engineer Kurt Mix knows this well after his arrest earlier this year for allegedly deleting text message strings from his iPhone during his work to STOP the Macando Well from spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
By entering certain strings of text into user input boxes on Web sites, cybercriminals are able to confuse their commands with data in a site's Structured Query Language (SQL) database and gain control of it, says Grossman.