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Re: WashPost: Consultant broke FBI computer security using off the shelf software

Hmm ... thanks for the lead Joe.  Perhaps these FBI agents and their hacker cohorts should be watching their back - some of those Killer Koke Hitmen south of the border may not be clued in that the FBI helped the Real Thing against eeevil Pepsi desperadoes.  If online hacking tools could access the century-old secret recipe by inside FBI files that enable kidnapping the warmware that could be tortured by CIA-style water-boarding, then the Hitmen may prefer to take out such agents and hacker cohorts.    

Lou

-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Pezzillo <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 6, 2006 2:59 PM
>To: CVV Voting <cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: WashPost: Consultant broke FBI computer security using off the shelf software
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>Able to access 38,000 passwords, witness protection info, etc., did  
>it "simply" to get around the "bureaucracy" of the security  
>system...also interesting that he appears to have had insider  
>complicity and/or approval in doing so...
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/ 
>AR2006070501489_pf.html
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>Consultant Breached FBI's Computers
>Frustrated by Bureaucracy, Hacker Says Agents Approved and Aided  
>Break-Ins
>By Eric M. Weiss
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Thursday, July 6, 2006; A05
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>A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the  
>Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and  
>gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI  
>Director Robert S. Mueller III.
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>[...]
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>Colon, 28, an employee of BAE Systems who was assigned to the FBI  
>field office in Springfield, Ill., said in court filings that he used  
>the passwords and other information to bypass bureaucratic obstacles  
>and better help the FBI install its new computer system. And he said  
>agents in the Springfield office approved his actions.
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