Bauer, Shourd and Fattal left early Friday in a taxi for Ahmed Awa, a touristic town near Iraq's border with Iran, planning to hike in the mountains there, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for thesecuritymanager of Sulaimaniya.
The Syrian cyberactivist and the California IT securitymanager pointed out that the lack of fanfare during download helps to conceal the viruses from their victims.