Would-Be Akamai Spy Busted By Feds

itwbennett writes "Elliot Doxer, an Akamai Technologies staffer, was charged on Wednesday with wire fraud. The case began in June 2006 when Doxer sent an e-mail to the consulate of a foreign country (referred to as 'country X') in which he 'expressed his desire to help that country with whatever information he could obtain in his position,' according to an article on ITworld. 'The foreign consulate that Doxer contacted turned his e-mail over to law enforcement authorities, and a little over a year later, he was contacted by an FBI agent posing as a representative of 'country X.' Over the next 18 months, Doxer left confidential business information such as customer lists and contracts at a designated spot called a dead drop, acts captured via video surveillance.'"

Comments

Re:An Analog 'Dead Drop'?

[gstoddart]

An Akamai employee is using an analog dead drop? Surely he could have set up some sort of digital delivery served up by his employer, no?

It made him feel more like a secret agent, so they humored him. His handlers did have to tell him not to wear the mask and cape, though. It was creeping out the locals.

Re:An Analog 'Dead Drop'?

[The Clockwork Troll]

An information leak facilitator named Doxer?

What's next, a sorority president named Cumdumpster?

Re:What kind of moron

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Heh. The part about the consulate handing the guy over had me convinced he tried to sell something to the Britain, and they only allow US/UK technology exchanges to go one way.

Re:Entrapment

[rthille]

"If a LEO approaches me and offers to murder my estranged ex-wife for $20,000 that's entrapment."

No, that's a bargain!