[FYI] (Fwd) Re: [ISN] FBI "hack" raises global security concerns

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date sent:      	Wed, 02 May 2001 10:32:55 -0400
To:             	ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
From:           	John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject:        	Re: [ISN] FBI "hack" raises global security concerns
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The US Attorney's Office and FBI in Seattle are on the cutting
edge of investigation and prosecution for cybercrime. Whether
that is due to the talent available from Microsoft and Boeing and a
host of rich technological innovators -- as well as alleged victims of
cybercrime -- remains to be seen.

All the federal agencies in the Washington State and Oregon areas,
DoJ, DoD, IRS, ATF, EPA, Immigration, and more, are becoming leaders
in fighting cybercrime, and are well-ahead of their HQs in the
nation's capital. They work together and share resources, directed by
DoJ's office for combatting domestic counterterrorism.

The area has become a hotbed training ground for counterterrorism, in
response to massive federal funding for domestic terrorism threats as
well as for alleged dangers of evildoers coming from Canada.

Many corporations there produce cybercrime fighting tools and 
provide contract services to the feds and governmental and
corporate customers worldwide.

What is interesting is how fast federal agencies in that area are
learning from and investigating the Internet as a crime tool. Recall
that Microsoft is a regular complainant to the FBI for a host of
grievances, worldwide. The defense industries in the area paved the
way for that use of rent-a-FBI in the national interest.

One of the premier crypto-cracking corporations used by federal
agencies is across the border in Idaho.

My favorite suspect is Oregon's Intel for covertly planting IDs and
other sneakthief squealers on the CPU or tiny chips nearby.
Camouflaged by finger pointing to keyboard loggers and virii or other
bugs for dummies so often in the news. Keyboard loggers, never
built-in spytools doubling in trangressive power every 18 months,
right.

Then there's unbreakable crypto for absolutely certain privacy.
Dummy.



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