Khoder bin Hakkin wrote: > http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html > > December 17, 2001 > FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data
Have to reply to this - the outcome of this is great... > Last week the FBI contacted the owner of MonkeyBrains, Rudy > Rucker, Jr., [I *assume* son of, uh, Rudy Rucker, mathemtician and author. I thoroughly recommend "White Light".] > Accordingly, rather than hand over the entire database to the > FBI, MonkeyBrains has decided to open the database to the > public. Now everyone (including the FBI) will be able query > which accounts have been compromised and search for their > hostnames. Password and keylogged data will not be made > available, for obvious legal reasons. [commentary snipped] Flantastic! What possible reason could the FBI have come up with (and I would love to see a copy of the request for MonkeyBrain's database) for obtaining such confidential data, even if/especially when illegally obtained in the first place... The only disheartening side of this is that 99% of the people who *should* be querying that list won't ever hear of it... Ah yes, the media loves to report the gory stuff, yet seems all too ready to ignore the /useful/ bits... Of course, if report mails form the virus were sent to another dozen-and-a-half addresses too, what's the FBI doing about *those* accounts? Did Yahoo et al. just hand over the data as requested? I find it hard to believe that the FBI chased up just one avenue... Furthermore, under the second phase of the UK Data Protection Act [http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/], if the forthcoming Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters [http://www.hcch.net/e/workprog/jdgm.html] were to come into force, would I be allowed to ask the Feds for my account details if I lost them?... .g
