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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."
Turnabout's fair play, eh?
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
I say extradite this fed to Russia, and hand him over to Dmitry Sklyarov. I'll leave the rest for you to imagine.
Will we be exchanging programmers in the future?
No, it means that the FBI hacked the webpage. Sorry, you'll get to see what was really on it, in about 30 years, after Ashcroft dies.
I once unplugged my computer from internet, and removed all hard drives to be placed in safelocker, just so that my computer couldn't be hacked or my internet actions traced. Couldn't visit any webpages after that :( I quess this is some conspiracy with hardware manufacturers and advertisers to harrass me.
It was all legal. The FBI had reasons to believe that these Russian corporations were running Kazaa and sharing both The Decleration of Independence and the US Constitution. Also MP3s of the Star Spangled Banner.
...but they do anyway.
And on lighter news did anyone else see this [cnn.com]? 116 trillion dollars? Appearently, Scott Evil will be taking the LSAT! I mean, I feel for those people, and maybe agree with some of their reasoning in assigning blame, but combining comic book supervillain plots with actual lawsuits seems less than productive.
I like the bit about how they're going to sue people until "terrorism is stopped". I expect after that they'll sue some more to achieve world peace and an end to oppression everywhere.