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[privacy] Corrupt U.S. Customs Agent Sentenced For Data Deals
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:06:56 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 C|Net News article by Declan McCullagh, via ZDNet Australia. [snip] A recent court case demonstrates, once again, the dangers of assembling massive police databases and trusting that law enforcement officers with access are paragons of virtue. In this case, the unvirtuous Fed is named Rafael Pacheco, an agent with the US Customs Service in Florida. And the database in question is the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, or TECS, which contains more than a billion records used by Customs and other federal police. Pacheco was, to put it bluntly, a corrupt cop. He sold access to TECS for money. [snip] More: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Corrupt-US-Customs-agent-sentence d-for-data-deals/0,130061744,339285213,00.htm - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHkF4dq1pz9mNUZTMRAq5rAJ42yk+F43EEo00OVrSb4pAvkig7rACgwW1+ xpH5to92Oiltb7GlBSzYI1E= =ljTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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