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FBI, hire Arabic speakers, don't force ISP's to track my Web surfing

Yesterday, FBI director Robert Mueller expressed a preference that Internet Service Providers preserve customer Web use records for quite some time.His reasons: to assist in terrorism probe investigations as well as child pornography and predator-related matters.As my colleague Declan McCullagh reports: "Terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the...

Tags: FBI

Blog posts 2006-10-18

FBI's Mueller plays broken record at RSA

FBI Director Robert Mueller gave a speech at the RSA Conference this week, and asked for help from the private sector to stay ahead of the curve in combatting cybercrime. "It is not easy for law enforcement and private industry alike to stay ahead of the curve when it...

Tags: Andy Purdy, Robert Mueller

Blog posts 2006-02-16

Overcoming the code of silence

In a recent speech, FBI Director Robert Mueller cited a Computer Security Institute/FBI report claiming that only 20 percent of companies hacked report the incidents to law enforcement authorities. We know that you have practical concerns about reporting breaches of security. You may believe that calling us will adversely...

Tags: Robert Mueller

Blog posts 2005-08-15

Additional Resources

To the FBI IT incompetence beats misleading Congress

When FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee over the underreported of "national security letters" he had two choices: Tell senators that the FBI deliberately downplayed the number of letters or claim IT incompetence. IT incompetence won...

Tags: Federal government, Databases, information technology, U.S. Congress, NSL, FBI, OGC

Blog posts 2007-03-28

So, EV1 was SCO's PR pawn after all

So, EV1 was SCO's PR pawn after allBurn, SCOSCO is going to get what they deserve... failure in all areas of business. Take that, McBride!http://opendomain.blogspot.com/cesspool ??>> I'm not sure what's worse. This blantant and fraudulent manipulation of people, companies, and the press or HP's invasion of privacy

Tags: SECURITY, SCO Group Inc., privacy, SCO PR, public relations

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

FBI agents OK'd consultant break-in

In an astounding story, a FBI consultant broke in repeatedly to classified FBI computers and gained 38,000 passwords, including Director Robert S. Mueller's, federal prosecutors charged. According to a Washington Post story: The break-ins, which occurred four times in 2004, gave the consultant access to records in the...

Tags: Joseph Thomas Colon, FBI

Blog posts 2006-07-06

TYS: Surveillanceworld

TYS = "Told You So." And this is not something I was looking forward to being right about, but the Bush Administration seems intent on driving toward a complete Orwellian world. According to CNET sister publication of ZD Net, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller met with...

Tags: SurveillanceWorld, ZD Net

Blog posts 2006-06-02

Surveillance, online and off

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller met with executives from Google, Microsoft, AOL, Comcast, Verizon…last Friday at the Justice Department to ask the firms to “keep histories of the activities of Web users for up to two years to assist in criminal investigations of child pornography and...

Tags: surveillance camera, camera

Blog posts 2006-06-01

Justice wants companies to retain data

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller urged telecom companies and service providers to retain user data for two years in a closed-door meeting held Friday at the Justice Dept., News.com reported last week. During Friday's meeting, Justice Department officials passed around pixellated (that is,...

Tags: Internet

Blog posts 2006-05-31

Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retentionPure Insanity...This guy craps all over every one that has fought for freedom and privacy in this country.What timing :(What else should we expect from socialists? [nt].Thanks a lot Jackball!!!In the words of Judy Judy, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"This...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Gonzales, data retention, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2006-05-26

Global Online Freedom Act, commercial open source, the end of passwords and more on this week's podcast

In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we discuss the proposed legislation--the Global Online Freedom Act of 2006--controlling how U.S. Internet companies deal with foreign governments that practice censorship, such as China. It's great to have this public dialog, but legislative grand standing is a slippery slope...

Tags: Global Online Freedom Act, podcast

Blog posts 2006-02-17

Photos: FBI director looks to businesses

Robert Mueller speaks to attendees of the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, Calif.

Tags: Federal government, RSA Security Inc., FBI, San Jose, California, director, conference

Image galleries 2006-02-16

Photos: FBI director looks to businesses

Robert Mueller speaks to attendees of the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, Calif.

Tags: Federal government, RSA Security Inc., FBI, San Jose, California, director, conference

Image galleries 2006-02-16

Didn't they teach the feds how not to have a $170M IT failure?

Here's a story that slipped past my radar that's enough to make anyone sick, not just IT professionals. The New York Times has a piece regarding the latest report to detail the FBI failures that allowed two of the Sept 11 hijackers to slip through its dragnet. This...

Tags: national security, information technology

Blog posts 2005-06-09

Feds uncloak the Patriot Act

Feds uncloak the Patriot ActThis is sickThere is no way we can allow the Federal Government to reestablish ANY part of the Patriot Act. I'm an American, and I don't appreciate it violating my BILL OF RIGHTS.What JUNK!Secret policing, "court orders", trials, and detentions ONLY belong to fascist dictatorships, and...

Tags: Regulations, USA PATRIOT Act

Discussion threads 2005-04-06

Government IT projects <em>are</em> different

People are still talking about the recent news that the FBI's Virtual Case File system won't work after almost $170 million has been spent on it. A Wired News story has generalized the commentary to talk about government IT blunders. Your first thought might be that things aren't...

Tags: government-IT

Blog posts 2005-01-31

Government IT projects <em>are</em> different

People are still talking about the recent news that the FBI's Virtual Case File system won't work after almost $170 million has been spent on it. A Wired News story has generalized the commentary to talk about government IT blunders. Your first thought might be that things aren't...

Tags: government-IT

Blog posts 2005-01-31

FBI's technology woes

In June 2002 I wrote about the FBI's technology woes, and the problems in deploying modern business systems persists. A recent NYT story, "F.B.I. Sees Delay in New Network to Oversee Cases," lays out the difficulties with deploying the Virtual Case File system--part of the $500 million Trilogy project--that is...

Tags: FBI

Blog posts 2004-06-27