[thechat] Fwd: FC: FBI bumbling ruins chance for terrorist "cyber-sting"
Ben Dyer
ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Wed Jul 31 10:29:01 CDT 2002
And yet, this is the same government that wants to put "hackers" in prison
for life...
--Ben
>http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002-07-30-al-qaeda-online_x.htm
>
> Man hijacks al-Qaeda site for FBI use
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Web operator Jon Messner gained control of one
> of al-Qaeda's prime Internet communication sites, he offered it to the
> FBI to use it for disinformation and collecting data about
> sympathizers.
>
> What followed, he says, was a week of frustration.
>
> FBI agents struggled to find someone with enough technical know-how to
> set up the sting. By the time they did, the opportunity was lost as
> militant Islamic Web users figured out the site was a decoy, said
> Messner of Ocean City, Md.
>
> "It was like dealing with the motor vehicle administration," said
> Messner, who runs Web sites, many of which sell pornographic
> materials. "We could have done something that could have seriously
> impacted things. It took me so many days just to get somebody who
> understood the Internet."
>
> [...]
Ben Dyer, Senior Internet Developer, Imaginuity Interactive
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