On this day in conspiracies

According to later accounts, a strange serpent-like animal is seen entering the harbor at Cape Ann, north of Gloucester. Word spreads quickly through the fishing community and to Boston.

In his chambers that morning Crater spends about two hours going through files; court staff later say he destroyed papers. He has a law clerk, Joseph Mara, cash two checks totaling about $5,150, and at midday the two men carry two locked briefcases to Crater's apartment. He tells Mara to take the afternoon off.

After a twelve-year delay requested by investigators who feared inspiring copycats, a detailed epidemiological analysis by Thomas Torok and colleagues is published in JAMA, laying out how the outbreak was investigated and confirmed as intentional. No wave of copycat attacks had followed.

At a press conference, Justice Department and FBI officials name Ivins as the sole perpetrator, resting the case in large part on a flask of anthrax in his lab, designated RMR-1029, that they say was the genetic parent of the attack spores.

CrowdStrike releases its full External Technical Root Cause Analysis of Channel File 291. It explains that a template type defined 21 input parameter fields while the integration code supplied only 20 values; a later instance introduced a non-wildcard match on the 21st field, causing the Content Interpreter to perform an out-of-bounds memory read and crash. It states that a third-party review confirmed the bug was not exploitable by a threat actor.