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Cyber Crime A Distant #3 Priority for FBI

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bigger-fish-to-fry dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A reading of the Justice Department's 2008 budget justification to Congress for the FBI indicates the agency is dedicating about 5.5 percent of its field agents to combating cyber crime, the FBI's stated Number Three priority, The Washington Post reports. Take away the agents dedicated to catching child predators online — a program that accounts for the vast majority of the department's prosecutorial victories — and about 3.6 percent of the FBI's agents are dedicated to cyber crime, the report notes. From the story: 'If the FBI's third most-important priority claims just over 3.5 percent of its active agents, how many agents and FBI resources are dedicated to the remaining Top Ten priorities?'"

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  1. Whaaaa? by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    'If the FBI's third most-important priority claims just over 3.5 percent of its active agents, how many agents and FBI resources are dedicated to the remaining Top Ten priorities?'"

    I am not sure what you want. This reminds me of a conversation I once had with a user:

    User: Why didn't you add feature X in this revision?

    Me: If you remember, we sent out a feature ballot, and X was not voted high.

    User: That's because you put it toward the end of the ballot list, where people didn't see it.

    Me: We can't put everything at the top of the list.

    User: Why not?

    Me: (I fake a beeper call and leave)

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  2. X Files by Rank_Tyro · · Score: 4, Funny

    What priority are the X-Files?

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    1. Re:X Files by barry_the_bogan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Last I heard, they just had two agents working on them.

  3. Basic Math by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the story: 'If the FBI's third most-important priority claims just over 3.5 percent of its active agents, how many agents and FBI resources are dedicated to the remaining Top Ten priorities?'" It must be less than or equal to 24.5% since 3.5% * 7 = 24.5% !

    Oh, was that supposed to be rhetorical?
    Sorry. This slashdot, we are all pedants, with the occasional pedantess, here.
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  4. Busy, But... by maz2331 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know those FBI folks are pretty busy and all, but could they just spare a LITTLE time to go arrest the SCO management team already?

  5. Re:Lobbyists by dascritch · · Score: 4, Funny

    and 2 agents are running after UFOs, 11th Top Priority

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  6. Re:No prizes for guessing what the top priority is by Kamineko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Priority 11 - Serve the Public Trust
    Priority 12 - Protect the Innocent
    Priority 13 - Uphold the Law

    No, wait!

  7. Re:Yeah, I know. by tacocat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe Kansas is just a good home town kind of state and not rampant with crime but white picket fences and apple pie?

  8. Re:My experience with the FBI's cybercrime divisio by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    He was talking about "warez," but he was pronouncing it "Juarez."

    I found it very hard to take him seriously after that. But that's how the illegals are getting in, those damn tubes run right under the Rio Grande. Go to Juarez's site and you can hop a tube straight into the US of A. It's not like a dumptruck! It's a series of tubes! Soylent Green is made of sherbet!
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  9. Re:It's not important yet... by pokerdad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does the $392,261 per agent seem excessive to anyone else?

    Its not the agents that are expensive, its the mathematicians