Previous Politech message: "Feds raid Mass. software company, allege ties with bin Laden" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04218.html --- U.S. Department of Justice Michael J. Sullivan United States Attorney District of Massachusetts Press Office: (617) 748-3139John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse 1 Courthouse Way Suite 9200 Boston, Massachusetts 02210 December 6, 2002 STATEMENT OF U.S. ATTORNEY MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Last night a search warrant was executed at the offices of P-Tech located in Quincy, Massachusetts. The search was conducted without incident by investigators from U.S. Customs, FBI, IRS, Secret Service, INS and the Massachusetts State Police. The affidavit filed in support of the search warrant is under a court-ordered seal and at this time, no further information about the search warrant can be disclosed. The search was conducted in connection with an on-going financial crime investigation. Media characterizations of this as a terrorist investigation are premature. Due to P-Tech's status as a provider of software to agencies of the U.S. Government, there have been questions raised concerning their products. All of the products provided to the Government were of a non-classified nature. However, out of an abundance of caution, the affected Government agencies, including the FBI, conducted a review of their computer systems. There is no reason to believe that the software has any secondary purpose or malicious code, or that there has been a breach of any kind. There have been no vulnerabilities identified in connection with any of the products provided by P-Tech. There is also no evidence to suggest that the system is susceptible to compromise or poses any security risk. We have no further comment at this time on this on-going investigation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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