To: Clients, colleagues and friends
Subject: News this week in the world of espionage.
Dust Bunnies In Black Researchers are developing tiny, airborne devices that can look and listen as they float... ... researchers at the University of California at Berkeley (are) developing tiny, electronic devices called "smart dust," designed to capture mountains of information about their surroundings while literally floating on air. http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/20/MN62513.DTL
Lucky Charms MI5 sued over bugging of Sinn Fein car
A bugging and tracking device was found hidden in the roof of a Ford
Mondeo carrying the two men (Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness) at a
highly sensitive time during the review of the Good Friday agreement
last December. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/
The Cisco Kid A former Cisco Systems Inc. engineer was hit this week with federal
charges that he stole trade secrets... ...An FBI affidavit indicates
that the CD files were seized earlier this month from Morch's apartment.
Fight Back... Ingram Micro, the computer distributor with a sales center in Amherst,
has gone to court in California to unmask 12 "John Does" who discussed
the company anonymously on an Internet bulletin board. In a lawsuit in
Orange County, Ingram Micro charges that the authors of the messages are
current or ex-employees who are illegally airing company secrets. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20001115/1034085.asp
Match Wits With The Cincinnati Police. You Decide... Alleged thief isn't spy, authorities decide...
... he was caught stealing a list of business executives from the
hotel serving as headquarters for a global trade summit. The list of
names had nothing to do with the trade summit. ... It belonged to
Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co., which was having a graduation
ceremony at the end of a corporate function. The names showed which P&G
employees completed the program. http://www.cleveland.com:80/news/index.ssf?/news/pd/nn16trad.html
Cool Gear... Microtransmitter in a wristwatch...
The BREITLING EMERGENCY wrist instrument is the first and only
multifunction chronograph equipped with an emergency microtransmitter... http://www.breitling.com/eng/produits/emerg/index.html
Court Decision... Tyson Information Not Secret
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Tyson Foods is at fault for
not adequately protecting corporate secrets from a major competitor...
...Tyson claimed ConAgra saved $70 million by using the formula and
asked for that amount in damages. http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?
FRONTID=BUSINESS&STORYID=APIS78A8ET00
Spy Wear... For former Czech spy Katrina Barillova, wearing chic, miniature
high-tech devices was more than just haute couture - it was a way of
life. "During communism, you had to make your own fashion. As a young
girl, I learned to sew clothes for myself," she says. "Later on, when I
became an agent, I integrated different sensors and listening devices
into the lining of my own clothes, belts or accessories."
You could almost call Barillova, 27, a model spy. As a teenager,
she took classes in espionage and science, with a modeling career on the
side. "I Was a Teenage Spy" http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/tech/DailyNews/wearables001116.html
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: This week in espionage. (something for everyone)
Microphones found in office of new Mexican governor -- Officials in the central Mexican state of Morelos are investigating
possible espionage of the new governor after hidden microphones were
found in his office. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_99770.html?
Office Thieves Target Laptops -- ... but with only minutes to speech time, the laptop was . . . where?
Not at the podium, where Herndon had left it while he made a phone call.
Swiftly came his dawn of realization: A nimble thief was at work in the
Washington Convention Center, pilfering not merely an expensive
computer, which could be replaced easily, but data that couldn't be. By
the hundreds of thousands, laptop computers are being swiped from hotel
rooms and the offices of corporate America, a new genre of crime that
can disrupt lives far more than the theft of a car, a VCR or a purse. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11910-2000Nov4.html
Gartner: Watch Out For Pirate Wireless Networks -- Call them a 21st century version of peeping Toms. Using components found
in information technology (IT) departments, wireless pirates put
together networks that allow them to secretly peer at data and passwords
that cross Internet system backbones... http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/157874.html
Shop manager filmed women changing with spy camera -- A Japanese travel agency manager has been sacked for spying on women in
the changing rooms of his shop. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_110774.html?
I Know What You Did Last Summer... and Autumn... and -- "... searches of computer hard drives routinely turn up embarrassing
details about workers' health problems, marital woes and financial
difficulties. More and more companies are using police surveillance
techniques to dig into employee hard drives to monitor office
activities. The development, little known outside the narrow community
of corporate security experts, is sure to raise tensions over workplace
privacy in an age when the lives of millions of workers are inextricably
tied to their office computers." http://www.pioneerplanet.com:80/seven-days/2/tech/docs/036891.htm
(You heard it here first... Prepare now to deal with this rising star
issue... professionally, and personally. It's a two edged sword.
Legislative "minimization" laws are still many months/years out...
depending how many unprofessional and abusive investigations take place
between now and then. Lawsuits and ill feelings will fill the gap.)
Pope Urged to Admit Spy Charges in Return for Lighter Sentence -- (No, not The Pope.)
Russian prosecutors urged U.S. spy suspect Edmund Pope on Thursday to
plead guilty to espionage charges so he could receive a lighter prison
sentence. Pope has denied the charges. http://www.russiatoday.com:80/news.php3?id=219315
First Amendment Issue Appears in Wiretapping Case -- (and yet another loophole)
In a wiretapping case to be heard by the Supreme Court on Dec. 5, the
SPJ, along with a coalition of more than 20 media organizations, asked
the high court to uphold an earlier appeals court decision. The
Philadelphia court found news media to be free of any liability in cases
where the contents of an intercepted communication are made public but
the media does not participate in the interception. http://www.mediainfo.com:80/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/110900n1.htm
Security Scrapbook - This week in corporate espionage - Fun stuff Tue, 07 Nov 2000
To: Client, colleagues and friends
Subjects:
-- Recent media reports on corporate espionage.
-- The World's smallest TV cameras...
-- Spy toyz Xmas list...
-- 8-hour Digital Voice Recorder (A third thicker, a third narrower.
Comes with attachment for recording your phone calls.) http://zap1.com/sam_voicestickhome.html
(cheaper via mail order at: 773-324-2196)
-- Picture frame receives pix via the Internet. Very Cool! All you need
is a good imagination to see the uses for this. No more microdots! http://www.ceiva.com/
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