[thechat] Fwd: FC: FBI bumbling ruins chance for terrorist "cyber-sting"

[Ben Dyer]

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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