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Reverse hacker ordeal Sandia put lab's interests over those of country
Computerworld ^ | February 26, 2007 | Jaikumar Vijayan

Posted on 02/27/2007 1:55:46 PM PST by dickmc

A New Mexico jury recently awarded Shawn Carpenter $4.3 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit against his former employer Sandia National Laboratories.

The former network intrusion detection analyst was fired in January 2005 after he shared information relating to an internal network compromise with the FBI and the U.S. Army. Sandia alleged that Carpenter had inappropriately shared confidential information he had gathered in his role as a security analyst for the laboratory.

Carpenter said he had done so only for national security reasons. He said his independent investigations of a May 2004 breach had unearthed evidence showing that the intruders who had broken into Sandia's networks belonged to a Chinese hacking group called Titan Rain that also had attacked other sensitive networks and stolen U.S. military and other classified documents.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinese; sandia; security
Interesting article worth reading. (Includes a former CIA "You're lucky you have such understanding management… if you worked for me, I would decapitate you! There would at least be blood all over the office!" boss among other things.)
1 posted on 02/27/2007 1:55:47 PM PST by dickmc
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To: dickmc
Can't believe nobody seems to be reading this.

Really shocking article involving "non compliance" of a company regarding security issues.

2 posted on 02/27/2007 2:09:25 PM PST by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: FixitGuy
It's Bush's fault.

He failed to purge the corrupt and anti-American Clinton scum.

3 posted on 02/27/2007 2:19:16 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: dickmc

So he busts a Chinese hacking ring and HE gets fired? Have the Chinese just taken over the entire CIA? What is going on here?
Sandia and Los Alamos have had truly country-threatening security lapses and our only response seems to be a bureaucratic one. Back in the day, we knew what do to with spies: remember the Rosenbergs? see also
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791862/posts


4 posted on 02/27/2007 2:28:20 PM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: dickmc

Actually the site seems to be bogged so no one can gain access...


W


5 posted on 02/27/2007 4:19:16 PM PST by WLR ("fugit impius nemine persequente iustus autem quasi leo confidens absque terrore erit")
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To: WLR

Read the story at last

If all is substantially as reported

The Medal of Freedom for him would be the most appropriate
Presidential Citation as well as the rest.

He has my appreciation and respect.

W


6 posted on 02/28/2007 10:17:45 AM PST by WLR ("fugit impius nemine persequente iustus autem quasi leo confidens absque terrore erit")
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