"Smack" the lawyer of your choice...but smack!

GEORGE D. HARDY
Assistant U.S. Attorney

     4.   I  have  been  advised  by  the  Federal  Bureau  of
Investigation that the public release of the identity of the two
victims could cause serious financial and security difficulties for
the victims.  Until now, the victims have been identified only to
the defense, as part of the criminal discovery in the case.

  Silly me, I thought the people who had their credit card information
exposed were the victims.

     5.   The  difficulties  facing  these  victims  include  the
probability that additional hackers will seek to challenge these
computer systems,  once the defendant's successful efforts are
revealed; and the loss of business due to the perception by others
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that computer systems may be vulnerable.
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  Uh... Excuse me, Dude, but I believe that's how life works. Unless,
of course, the government steps in to cover up the facts to the benefit
of rich corporations and to the detriment of their gullible customers.

     8.   The defendant's counsel was contacted regarding this
motion.  She expressed a willingness to agree to it, but only if
the  government  agreed to  limit  in some way the  government's
appropriate public release of the defendant's guilty pleas as a
deterrent to others.   Such an arrangement was not acceptable to
the government.  Defendant's counsel therefore indicated that she
would like to file an opposition to this motion; but would agree
that pending the resolution of this issue, that the identities of
the victims could be protected.

  The cunt sold her client down the river for a good tee time with
the prosecutor at a private golf course. Put her in charge of
defending Terry McNicols.

"Smak" delivered an encrypted CD containing over 100,000 stolen 
credit card numbers. After the validity of the credit card information
was confirmed through decryption of the data on the CD, "Smak" was 
taken into custody by the FBI. 

  And the 100,000 people were immediately notified that their credit
cards had been compromised? I fucking doubt it. Better to screw over
100,000 citizen-units than expose the incompetence of a few companies
and the government's fight against strong encryption and computer
security.

ShitMonger

On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Anonymous wrote:

> "Smak" delivered an encrypted CD containing over 100,000 stolen 
> credit card numbers. After the validity of the credit card information
> was confirmed through decryption of the data on the CD, "Smak" was 
> taken into custody by the FBI. 
> 
>   And the 100,000 people were immediately notified that their credit
> cards had been compromised? I fucking doubt it. Better to screw over
> 100,000 citizen-units than expose the incompetence of a few companies
> and the government's fight against strong encryption and computer
> security.

I was recently notified by a bank that issued one of my credit cards that 
my card number had been sold, along with thousands of other account 
numbers, to an undercover FBI agent. The bank canceled my account, opened 
a new one, and overnighted a replacement card. No big deal, and no loss 
to me.

OTOH, it *might* have been in response to a different incident. Keep 
those paranoid rants coming.

-r.w.

Rabid Wombat wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Anonymous wrote:
> 
> > "Smak" delivered an encrypted CD containing over 100,000 stolen
> > credit card numbers. After the validity of the credit card information
> > was confirmed through decryption of the data on the CD, "Smak" was
> > taken into custody by the FBI.
> 
> I was recently notified by a bank that issued one of my credit cards that
> my card number had been sold, along with thousands of other account
> numbers, to an undercover FBI agent. The bank canceled my account, opened
> a new one, and overnighted a replacement card. No big deal, and no loss
> to me.

When were you notified? Is there a place a person can check to see if
their credit card was one of the ones sold? 

Deuce