CRIME User/employment verification

From: Steve Nichols (steven@private)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 09:56:07 PDT

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    Last night one of our T1 customers had his WUFtp hacked.
I received a call from a guy that said he was with the NSA, and that the
compromised system was attacking them.
He actually called my cell. Which is a private, unlisted number..


My question.

Is there a way to verify that an individual actually works for the
government.
Can I ask for a badge ID and call a number to verify employment?
I would hate to suspend a T1 customer's data due to a sour ex-employee,
impersonating an employee of the government.

I ended up asking him to email me the log. Which works, but in the off
chance that I'm not around to receive email......

Thanks for any info.

Steven Nichols
Network and Systems Administrator
Internet and NOC Manager


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