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Subject: Re: [ISN] Net espionage stirs Cold-War tensions
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i ! org>
Date: 2001-06-29 2:13:55
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:23:33AM -0500, InfoSec News wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2780523,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest
>
> By Ted Bridis
> The Wall Street Journal Online
> June 27, 2001 5:38 AM PT
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> Days later, using one man's password, "cfvlevfq," the FBI
> connected to the Russians' own computers overseas and downloaded
> 781 megabytes of data. Only then did they obtain a search warrant
> for the files. A U.S. judge condoned the tactic in a pretrial
> ruling, partly because the searched computers were in Russia.
Trivia: "cfvlevfq" translates to "think yourself" in russian, if typed
on russian keyboard. :)
D.K.
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