http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72345,00.html Feds Raid Software Company Suspected of Terror Ties Friday, December 06, 2002 BOSTON -- Federal agents late Thursday night raided a Quincy, Mass., company that provides critical software to major U.S. agencies and is suspected of having ties to Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda terrorists. Ptech Inc.'s clients include the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Energy Department, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Naval air systems, the U.S. Air Force, NATO, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Department of Energy and the agency that handles nuclear weapons security, according to its Web site. U.S. Customs agents confirmed reports of the raid early Friday morning. Officials suspect "back doors" may have been built into Ptech software that could enable terrorists to access federal computers. The raid "appears to be an important break," former FBI chief of domestic terrorism Robert Blitzer told Fox News Friday morning. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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