quote:Two men of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance presented themselves as computer technicians and were given unfettered access to the airport's top security mainframe room on August 27, a Sydney newspaper reported. "Inside, they spent two hours disconnecting two computers, which they put on trolleys and wheeled out of the room, past the security desk, into the lift and out of the building," the paper said.
from the 1st link. But if they were terrorists, of course it's not funny at all. It sounds like a remarkably well-planned and bold robbery. But what was on the servers? The Australian government won't say. I tend to think of computer crime as done via software networks, usually anonomously over the internet, not wheeling servers past security with a friendly wave. I hope they were just smugglers looking for an edge, and not al-Queda operatives planning the next 9/11.
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At least the Australians know when their stuff is stolen. We Americans don't find out about it until we do inventory every five years or so.
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quote:The eBay ad read "BlackBerry RIM sold AS IS!" So Eugene Sacks (not his real name), a Seattle computer consultant who always wanted one of the pager-size devices to check his e-mail, sent in a bid. For just $15.50, he bought the wireless device with 4 MB of memory.
After popping a battery into the BlackBerry's back panel, Sacks discovered a few things the previous owner wouldn't have wanted him to see -- more than 200 internal company e-mails from financial services firm Morgan Stanley and a database of more than 1,000 names, job titles (from vice presidents to managing directors), e-mail addresses and phone numbers (some of them home numbers) for Morgan Stanley executives worldwide.
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