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FBI s Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats: The FBI is using spyware to great effect, apparently. FBI agents trying to track the source of e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington high school last month sent the suspect a secret surveillance program designed to surreptitiously monitor him and ...

FBI, you've got mail -- NOT!: This seems a little...odd, to me. Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency's top official in New York. "As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is ...

Cryptome points us to this link: the robots.txt file at the FBI's site. I'll save you the click: User-agent: *Disallow: / This isn't the first time the government has shown some nervousness about their Web site content: The White House Vs. Search Spiders.

Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI requires little comment... "An Ohio woman accused in federal court of using mass forged e-mails from "AOL security" to swindle America Online subscribers out of their credit card numbers was allegedly tracked down after spamming exactly the wrong person: an FBI agent specializing in ...

FBI targets Net phoning: The government wants to start tapping Internet phone calls. "The new rules are necessary, because terrorists could otherwise frustrate legitimate wiretaps by placing phone calls over the Internet, warns a summary of a July 10 meeting with the FCC that the FBI prepared. 'Broadband networks may ...

A Washington Post article reports that a Hopkins, MN teenager has been arrested in connection with the Blaster-B worm. "A court official identified the teenager as Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minn., known online as 'teekid.' A U.S. official in Washington also confirmed an arrest was made early Friday. ...

Beware scammers using Katrina to fool charity contributors: Here's a depressing statistic. There are now some 2,300 Web sites advertising Hurricane Katrina relief services, and most of them are presumed to be bogus, the FBI said Friday. Twenty three hundred? Now there's a group of people that need to held ...

What's the deal with the blatantly illegal spams, these days? I've been getting spam that doesn't even try to disguise its intentions. "Are u carder? This site is a must-have for your bookmarks! * credit cards with cvv codes * trading * driver licenses" That was nothing compared to this ...

e-t-a-o-n-r-i Spy and the F.B.I.: This is a pretty funny story about a kid, a secret code, and the FBI. About six weeks later, when I happened to be off on another escapade, my mother was visited by a man who identified himself as an investigator from the F.B.I. [ ] ...

FBI makes arrest in Oscar screener piracy: Kind of a sad story here. A "friend" of an elderly Academy member convinced him to send him the screeners he got every year. The videos were promptly pirated. Carmine Caridi admitted in an affidavit released Thursday that he sent every so-called "screener" ...

Is anyone else watching this show? We've talked before about how Alias was a big geek tech show, and this one is the same, but less with the tech and more with the geek. Don is an FBI agent. His brother Charlie is a world-class mathmetician who can apply numbers ...

It's L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System: The city of Tuttle, Oklahoma had a Web server crash and the OS (CentOS) had to be reinstalled. Apparently someone forgot to put the Web site back up, because the default Apache page started appearing where the Web site should have been (you ...