[Caspar Bowden <cbat_private> writes in about the "U.K. anti-terrorism law imperils hackers, privacy, property" Politech post. He says that the most disturbing sections of the law apply only to people living in Northern Ireland and said some stringent restrictions have already existed. Those seem to be true statements. But from my (outsider's) perspective, I think it makes sense to be concerned about violations of fundamental human rights of privacy and property, no matter where they take place. --Declan] ******** From: rmsat_private (Richard M. Smith) To: "'Declan McCullagh'" <declanat_private> Subject: Ex-IRS Worker Pleads Guilty To Internal Server Sabotage Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:40:09 -0400 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168453.html A former systems administrator for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pleaded guilty to sabotaging several databanks at the agency after supervisors disciplined him by taking away his security clearance. In a Maryland federal court on Tuesday, 19-year-old Claude Carpenter III of Lusby, Md., pleaded guilty to writing a series of simple programs to delete data on three IRS servers. According to court records, Carpenter inserted the malicious code into his supervisor's account and into the servers after learning he was scheduled for termination. Carpenter was a systems administrator for Logicon, a subcontractor hired to manage the database that inventories all hardware and software within the IRS. In that position, he was responsible for monitoring three computer servers that run the database. ....... The IRS discovered the problem after Carpenter repeatedly called in to see "if everything was OK." ******** http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010726-92356793.htm Washington Times July 26, 2001 Sham FBI conference used as cover for party By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Senior FBI executives scheduled a sham conference at the bureau's Virginia training academy to allow colleagues to attend at taxpayers' expense a 1997 retirement party for a top FBI official, an internal report shows. While the "Integrity in Law Enforcement" conference was later found to have been cover for senior FBI managers to obtain improper reimbursements for personal travel to Washington, no one was disciplined other than to receive letters of censure. Similar actions by rank-and-file FBI agents would have led to their firing. The report was given last week to Senate investigators looking into recent FBI mismanagement and questions concerning such investigations as the Timothy McVeigh case and the arrest as a spy of agent Robert P. Hanssen. More than 140 persons, including as many as nine FBI executives and special-agents-in-charge (SACs) of bureau field offices, attended the Oct. 9, 1997, party in Arlington for veteran agent Larry A. Potts, while only five persons showed up for the Oct. 10, 1997, conference in Quantico, Va., -- which lasted about 90 minutes, including lunch. Two months before the party, Mr. Potts -- a onetime FBI deputy director -- was under criminal investigation over his questionable handling of a standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, during which three persons died. According to a September 1999 report by the Law Enforcement Ethics Unit (LEEU) at the FBI Academy, an inquiry into the Potts party began Oct. 22, 1997, and focused on whether the Quantico conference was illegally used to justify travel reimbursements to senior agents, who otherwise would have been on personal business. [...] ******** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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