No one even told me Uncle Oleg was in town - I would have driven to have dinner with him.
Какова хороший семья, если Вы не добираетесь, чтобы посетить их, в то время как они находятся в городе? 
- EUROPE NEWS
- OCTOBER 30, 2009
FBI Lets Barred Tycoon Visit U.S.
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One of Russia’s most powerful tycoons — barred entry to the U.S. for years due to U.S. government concerns about possible ties to organized crime — visited the country twice this year under secret arrangements made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska met with FBI agents in August and earlier this month as part of a continuing criminal probe, according to two administration officials. The focus of that probe couldn’t be learned. |
Mr. Deripaska used the opportunity of his recent U.S. visits to meet with top executives of U.S. investment banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The aluminum giant he controls, UC Rusal, is preparing for an initial public offering, a vital part of Mr. Deripaska’s efforts to save his debt-burdened business. |
Пожалуйста Дядя Семайон, только скажите, что это не верно.  FBI: Mobster ‘more powerful than a John Gotti’ |
NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you’ve never heard of. |
The FBI says Mogilevich, a Russian mobster, has been involved in arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire. |
“He has access to so much, including funding, including other criminal organizations, that he can, with a telephone call and order, affect the global economy,” said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Peter Kowenhoven. |
“He’s a big man. He’s a very powerful man,” FBI Special Agent Mike Dixon said. “I think more powerful than a John Gotti would be, because he has the ability to influence nations. Gotti never reached that stature.” |
He is accused of swindling Canadian and U.S. investors out of $150 million in a complex international financial scheme. It centered on a firm called YBM, which purportedly made magnets at a factory in Hungary. Read more at www.cnn.com |
So if this turns out to be true, then there are 2 crazy things happening with the FBI actually spying on US people (right wingers) and also using the blogsphere via a hired gun, to incite riots, responsive postings, etc.
IF it is true and FBI is doing that, you have to woder what other 3 letter agencies are doing to shape people’s opinions via New Media and psychological mechanisms. Hmmm… of course sales and marketing does that all the time in the real world, right Attorney: FBI trained NJ blogger to incite others |
| A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday. |
Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an “agent provocateur” and was taught by the agency “what he could say that wouldn’t be crossing the line,” defense attorney Michael Orozco said. |
“His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest,” Orozco said. |
Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die. Read more at www.breitbart.com |
Well at least Jack Bauer didn’t show up and take them out. Near Washington, D.C., construction crews watch for mystery ‘black’ wire |
A Metrorail extension risks hitting communications lines, including some used for top-secret government intelligence operations. |
Reporting from Washington —
This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of congested Tysons Corner in McLean, Va., hit a fiber-optic cable no one knew was there. |
This part doesn’t: Within moments, three black SUVs drove up, half a dozen men in suits jumped out, and one said, “You just hit our line.” |
Whose line, you may ask? The guys in suits didn’t say, recalled Aaron Georgelas, whose company, the Georgelas Group, was developing the Greensboro Corporate Center. Georgelas assumed that he was dealing with the federal government and that the cable in question was “black” wire — a secure communications line used for some of the nation’s most secretive intelligence-gathering operations. |
“The construction manager was shocked,” Georgelas recalled about the incident in 2000. “He had never seen a line get cut and people show up within seconds. Usually you’ve got to figure out whose line it is. To garner that kind of response that quickly was amazing.” Read more at www.latimes.com |
There are a few problems with the US approach. First, the government has to play by rules and since the bad guys don’t - it will be tough to beat them if a white hat has to combat the bad guys ethically.
Second, the guys with the true skills at this are not ones to sit locked in government facilities.
Lastly, the ones government should have and can go up against these black hats are most liely not going to want to work for some contractor being body shopped out to government. So government will get stuck with high priced contractors who do not have the true skills needed.
If the government wants to win - find the small shops or independent skills hackers - let them work in their own shops with government direction and keep the damn midle man (read contract houses) out of the game. Oh and definitely don’t consider putting out RFP’s to find these truely skilled people, you will find contractor wannabees.
Hell - my guess is some of the true hackers would do the work for free just to see if they could do it. American hackers called upon to help U.S. to fight overseas hackers |
| General Dynamics Information Technology has announced last month that Homeland Security Department was seeking to hire people, who understand hackers‘ tools and tactics and are able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems. It is also known that Pentagon plans to increase the number of cyberexperts it can train each year from 80 to 250 by 2011. |
Many specialists stated that the U.S. was not well prepared for a cyberattack, highlighting that the law enforcement and other protections were too outdated to keep threats from criminals, terrorists and unfriendly foreign nations away. Pentagon data shows, that more than $100 million was spent in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyberattacks and other computer network problems. |
MS Windows didn’t become popular and well spread to so many without reason. The more control any one company or any government has over the core OS, the more likely it will have back doors and be prone to attacks. Whether you want to fend off a government or hackers, Windows is not the best choice, harden Linux and hardened Mac’s are not better, not fullproof, but atleast the keys have not been left in the visor. Documents: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years |
A sophisticated FBI-produced spyware program has played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in federal investigations into extortion plots, terrorist threats and hacker attacks in cases stretching back at least seven years, newly declassified documents show.
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As first reported by Wired.com, the software, called a “computer and internet protocol address verifier,” or CIPAV, is designed to infiltrate a target’s computer and gather a wide range of information, which it secretly sends to an FBI server in eastern Virginia. The FBI’s use of the spyware surfaced in 2007 when the bureau used it to track e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington state high school to a 15-year-old student.
Read more at blog.wired.com |
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FBI Lets Barred Russian Tycoon Visit U.S.
When the FBI staged a terror raid on the New York home of 41-year-old Elliot Madison, they were not looking for weapons of war, deadly chemicals or the keys to unlocking a nefarious terror plot. Instead, they came looking for books, files, data, film and something called the “instruments of crime.”
