>Go to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/7676 for the whole
>thing.
(gawd, I hate GeoCities damn popups!)
geeezus.
I hope someone is taking this to the EFF. AND the ACLU.
Their use of 206[3121] is WAY out of bounds. Their interpretation basically
sez if you commit ANY crime -against- the phone company, the wiretap laws are
out the window. Stop paying your bill, they can legally tap your lines??!?
File a lawsuit against a telephone company and they can pentrap and trace your
calls?? All because of an 'exception' to the lawfull wiretap laws which
states...
s3121(b) ... does not apply with respect to the use of (taps) by a
provider of .. wire communication service -- (1) relating to the operation...
service, 'or to the protection of the rights or property of such provider'
OUCH.
I hope someone at the ACLU sees the implications of this.. a Phone company is
having network problems, seizes on something a wee bit improper that a
contractor is doing WITH SOMEONES PERMISSION (albeit probably improper),
wiretaps him, uses illegal pentrap data to get a search warrant, then SEIZES
HIS LIVELIHOOD. Some of the quotes in that warrant are a real crackup.
"My computer fraud training consists of a two week program .. on investigation
of Internet hacking" oooh, I'm impressed.
"Carmer says Blosser may still ahve access to US West computers if he has
placed a modem within US West's intranet system" Uh, say WHAT? They are the
fracking phone company. They don't have complete control over where modems
are?? I know I sure can't plug a modem in where I work, the digital PBX
system simply won't support it and analog lines are closely controlled.
"Nettesheim, a customer engineer... considers Blosser a 'computer genius' who
is capable of accessing the US West computer system via the internet". um...
not even gonna TOUCH this.
"Craddock...." um. Blosser's JOB was porting to NT. Of COURSE he would
carry around system disks and probably a few software disks he made himself (I
know I have a coupla CDroms I've burned with a wide selection of handy
sysadmin tools and utility software) "According to Craddock, Blosser knew the
whole US West system from beginning to end" ... Um, if i hired a systems
consultant, I'd hope they knew what they was doing!
"Craddock... discovered Blosser had made copies of hard drives from
workstations in other states". Anyone ever heard of Ghost Soft??? If he
had been installing systems in multiple states, of COURSE he'd want to have
some master disks for replicating, again.. THAT WAS HIS BLEEPING job.
$26K for a few cpu years worth of p90 time? Oh, geez. for $26,000 you could
built 10-20 kickass pentium systems and KEEP them. I don't even want to THINK
what $70k would buy.
So why the heck did they confiscate his CD-R recorder? Have these ignorant
SOB's never even SEEN a CD-R recorder before? Clue, visit your friendly
neighborhood compushop, plonk down about $250 cash and you can have your OWN
cd recorder. Neat toys too.
oh boy. they subpoenaed all our email! Neat. I have about 4900 messages to
the mersenne list here logged. Yow.
ok, enuf rants for now. Seriously tho, Aaron. ACLU. EFF. repeat that
mantra.
