DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists

Via Ars Technica comes news that an Amtrak employee was paid nearly $900,000 over the last ten years to give the DEA passenger lists outside of normal channels. Strangely enough, the DEA already had access to such information through official channels. From the article: The employee, described as a "secretary to a train and engine crew" in a summary obtained by the AP, was selling the customer data without Amtrak's approval. Amtrak and other transportation companies collect information from their customers including credit card numbers, travel itineraries, emergency contact info, passport numbers, and dates of birth. When booking tickets online in recent years, Amtrak has also collected phone numbers and e-mail addresses. ... Amtrak has long worked closely with the DEA to track drug trafficking activity on its train lines. The Albuquerque Journal reported in 2001 that "a computer with access to Amtrak's ticketing information sits on a desk in the [DEA]'s local office," wrote the ACLU.

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Amtrack should be working on

[azav]

Arresting tranny prostitutes on their trains. I was pretty shocked when I took a train across country and there was a man dressed as a woman who was always around the bathroom whenever I happened to walk by. Didn't take long to figure out that this was a tranny prostitute and when I mentioned it to the staff, they appeared to know about it. Fucking disgusting to have a working prostitute travelling along the train lines and even more disgusting to have it being a tranny pretending to be a woman. So damn repulsive.

Re:RIP Robin Williams

[Khyber]

I really don't know why people would mod this down, considering Robin Williams was a huge, HUGE fucking geek/nerd.

The man actually asked *ME* for an interview regarding my zero-light fodder technology because he wanted to know how it worked. Fuck yea I told him, and he kept my secret, like I'm keeping his.

You ignorant fucks don't even know that Robin was more of a geek/nerd than 3/4 of this site.

Dude understood x86 ASM and fixed my realtime guitar tuner waveform analysis program.

Take your ignorance and shove it up your own asses.

RIP oh Zelda player and ASM fudger (yea, the solution wasn't optimal. It still worked and didn't introduce security vulns.)