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Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:11:35 GMT
Wow -- cool. :-) It's a wild, wonderful world we live in... - ferg -- "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/technology/04privacy.html The break in the St. Louis murders came in 2002, when a reporter received an anonymous letter with a map generated by Microsoft's MSN service - marked with the location where a body could be found. The F.B.I. subpoenaed Microsoft for records of anyone who had searched for maps of that area in the days before the letter was sent. Microsoft discovered that only one user had searched for precisely that area and provided the user's Internet Protocol address. That address, in turn was provided by a unit of WorldCom, which identified the user as Maury Troy Travis, a 36-year-old waiter. (Mr. Travis was arrested and hanged himself in jail without ever admitting guilt.) -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search, (continued)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Paul Schmehl (Feb 05)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 06)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Colin Rognlie (Feb 06)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Paul Schmehl (Feb 06)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Axel Pettinger (Feb 06)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Paul Schmehl (Feb 05)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Richard Cox (Feb 06)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 06)
- Re: 2002 murder suspect located via MSN Map search Paul Schmehl (Feb 07)