Russian Agency Charges FBI Agent With Hacking

eNonymous Coward writes "An FBI agent who helped lure two Russian 'hackers' to the USA in 2000 so that they could be arrested is now being charged with hacking himself by the Russian FSB. You might remember that Gorshkov and Ivanov exploited an NT vulnerability to steal information from corporate networks, which was then used to extort money from the companies; they're also accused of being behind the CDUniverse and Western Union credit card database thefts. Last year a federal judge ruled that the FBI's action was legal, but the FSB disagrees."

Comments

What Speed?

[Anonymous Coward]

Russian FSB? How fast is it clocked?

Re:Of course, this isn't entrapment in the slighte

[Verizon Guy]

It surprises me, though, that you have two very good hackers, and neither of them thought to err on the side of caution and check the computers they were working on for such things...

Yeah I bet RMS could get them jobs at the FSF... no $pay$ albeit free doughnuts.