CERT staffer arrested on sex charges

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Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>

Ah so THIS is what they're doing instead of net security.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/news/s_151471.html

> A Carnegie Mellon University computer security expert is accused of
> using the Internet to arrange a sexual rendezvous with someone he
> believed to be a naive 15-year-old Westmoreland County girl named
> "Kelly." Ian A. Finlay, of Spahr Street, Shadyside, didn't know that
> Kelly was really a Greensburg policeman who decided to do a little
> homework while taking a course on how to pose as a child to catch
> sexual predators, state police said Friday.
>
> Finlay, 26, an Internet system security analyst for the Computer
> Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center, was arraigned on
> 10 counts of unlawful contact with a minor and single counts of
> attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and attempted
> statutory sexual assault.
>
> State police Lt. Robert Weaver said Finlay is accused of spending
> the past six weeks sending sexually explicit e-mails to Kelly,
> telling her he wanted to have sex with her and arranging a meeting
> that was to take place yesterday morning at a fast-food restaurant
> in Hempfield.


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