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Brazen airport computer theft that has Australia's anti-terror fighters up in arms
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| September 5, 2003
Posted on 09/04/2003 4:16:36 PM PDT by Shermy
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:16:36 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: swarthyguy; shaggy eel; seamole; aristeides; Sabertooth; pokerbuddy0; Badabing Badaboom; ...
Ping.
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:18:06 PM PDT
by
Shermy
(Threat Level: Tangerine)
To: Dog
Look at this!
To: Shermy
The mind staggers at the idiocy of the attorney-generals office! ! ! ! As for the Customs people the less said about them the better hope they gett the computers back before they are downloaded & the files distributed to various Islamofacist groups.
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:22:42 PM PDT
by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 "reach out and thump someone " & .50 cal Browning "reach out & CRUSH someone")
To: Shermy
If you pretend to be a workman, security officials everywhere turn a blind eye. ATMs have been stolen in broad daylight this way here in Texas in guarded office buildings.
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:24:28 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Shermy
Balls.
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:34:02 PM PDT
by
csvset
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To: csvset; archy
Balls. Yep, a classic intelligence action.
And I wouldn't dismiss a state actor as behind this.
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:40:32 PM PDT
by
Shermy
(Threat Level: Tangerine)
To: csvset
Balls.
Both of them
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:47:18 PM PDT
by
Shmokey
(Always be prepared)
To: Shermy
"...Customs has been advised that the servers did not contain personal, business-related or national security information...This is an issue for customs. It is not a national security issue." Deny, deny, deny,
deny, deny, deny,
Heigh-ho the derry-o
Deny, deny, deny,
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:48:07 PM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: Dog Gone
I'm a phone technician. The security at many installations are not unlike airport security. Big thunder no lightning.
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posted on
09/04/2003 4:54:52 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(The Clinton's have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured/killed -Peach)
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To: seamole
So Allah and Curry do go together......
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posted on
09/04/2003 5:36:55 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
(If you Sprinkle When You Tinkle,...Be a Sweetie and Wipe the Seatie......)
To: Shermy
What's really surprising about this theft is that maintenance for a high security system was outsourced. For all they know, thieves have been dowloading data and walking out with floppies, zip disks, CD's, etc. full of data for years. The thieves probably got tired of taking bits and pieces and, knowing how lax the security was, just decided to take the whole enchilada.
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posted on
09/04/2003 5:52:34 PM PDT
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: Shermy
duh....screw-up MATE
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posted on
09/04/2003 5:55:05 PM PDT
by
pointsal
To: Shermy
Something like this has happened at a number of local convenience stores with their ATMs... Some guys in coveralls come in saying that they're from the company that supplied the ATMs, and that there's a problem with them... They just cart them out to a waiting truck... And one enterprising group actually replaced a real ATM with a dummy unit, that would record cards and pins, and had it in place for nearly a week before they came back and picked it up. It had gotten hundreds of account numbers and pins!
Mark
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posted on
09/04/2003 8:15:44 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Get something every day from the four basic food groups: canned, frozen, fast and takeout)
To: Shermy
Wasn't me. I haven't even been to Australia.
But it is amazing what a plastic lam knockoff can allow you access to if you simply act like you belong there.
To: Miss Marple; Angelus Errare; Coop; Dog Gone; hchutch
whoa!
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posted on
09/05/2003 9:57:16 AM PDT
by
Dog
To: Shermy
Balls. Yep, a classic intelligence action.
And I wouldn't dismiss a state actor as behind this.
Yep, sounds like it could have been either Paul Hogan or Mel Gibson to me, too. In appropriate makeup, of course:
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posted on
09/05/2003 12:19:12 PM PDT
by
archy
(Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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