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I can tell you what happens if you call the FBI to report your site being hacked by criminal syndicates. Nothing. The FBI has no interest at all in investigati
by bugsy 15y ago
I can tell you what happens if you call the FBI to report your site being hacked by criminal syndicates.
Nothing. The FBI has no interest at all in investigating these crimes.
Unless apparently it is from a group criticizing the government. As we see in the article, that's the real crime. Not hacking a site, but the motivation. If it's to steal and commit financial fraud, the government couldn't care less. But if it's because you want to out lies and crimes told by government, then you are going to prison for a long time.
Make no mistake. This is not about the hacking itself at all.
- getsat 15y agoThere was an article a few months ago that showed the FBI spends most of its resources going after copyright infringers. Maybe you could claim some of your intellectual property was stolen next time?
- nextparadigms 15y agoReally? So there's Homeland Security going after copyright infringement, now FBI. What's next? CIA? I've seen that in Europe they are already starting to use the Interpol for such things. When did copyright infringement become one of the biggest crimes one could do? It certainly seems to be on the Government's top priority list, not far below terrorism.
- shareme 15y agoBecause its easy to track and prosecute... hacker breakins, difficult to track and prosecute hence FBI pretending to do there jobs by taking the low hanging fruit..
- pavel_lishin 15y agoNot to mention, it's typically corporations with big pockets pushing for these sorts of investigations.
- tptacek 15y agoHomeland Security doesn't "go after" copyright infringement. DHS is a cobbled-together afterthought, the bureaucratic equivalent of Mr. Oogey-Boogey from Nightmare Before Christmas, a writhing collection of squiggley little agencies held together with stitched up burlap, created as a slapdash response to 9/11. One of those agencies is ICE, the (small) organization originally chartered with transcontinental IP enforcement. The part of our government that is supposed to enforce organized criminal infringement of IP is enforcing infringement of IP. It seems silly to get upset that they're doing so under the banner of "DHS". You'd rather it was DOJ? They'd be doing more than seizing domains.
- omouse 15y agoIt became the biggest crime because copyright control means control of what people can see, hear and talk about. There's a lot of money to be made in censorship and controlled conversations with consumers.
- anamax 15y agoChild porn is another biggie.
- marshray 15y agoWhen I spoke with state/fed computer forensics types once they said it was ~50% of their workload.
- palish 15y agoWhy? That's absurd.
- anamax 15y agoNot at all. Going after child porn is both popular and safe. The feds like to go after (some) copyright infringement because politically connected industries want that. The ideal crime, from the feds' perspective, is one that combines all three characteristics.
- marshray 15y agoOne guy I talked to said occasionally they might have an attorney wanting them to do some time-consuming, heroic forensics on, say, a CD duplicator to find out how many copies of something were made. His response was something like "This guy's got pictures of a little boy getting sodomized here we're not going to drop this to work on that." Apparently there are a lot of people trading that child porn. These forensics guys seemed to know what they're doing and had a good perspective on their priorities.
- jordanb 15y agoI don't think it's your intellectual property that they care about...
- lallysingh 15y agoIt's probably the easiest way for agents to shore up their numbers for promotion.
- rdl 15y agoIn reality, the FBI spends more resources on anti-terrorism (per incident) than anything else.
- nitrogen 15y agoThat's not hard to do if you start classifying everything as terrorism.
- getsat 15y agoCan't edit parent post now, but here's an article with links to other articles about FBI priorities: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100809/17262010563.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100809/17262010563.shtml Identity theft and missing persons don't pay the bills, I guess.
- nkassis 15y agoYou would think that a politician would see that as a prime way to get votes. "The FBI cares more about you downloading a song off the internet then about your child being abducted. We need to get their priority straight. Vote for XYZ 2012"
- palish 15y agoHave you considered a political career?
- thaumaturgy 15y agoThe unfortunate truth of politics is that anybody that's qualified for the position doesn't want it.
- getsat 15y agoAnd anyone who wants to be in power is usually the type of person you least want near it.
- GHFigs 15y agoUnless apparently it is from a group criticizing the government. As we see in the article, that's the real crime. Read it again, or better yet read the linked Reuters article, which RWR just re-wrote and sexed-up. There is no causal connection made between the call for increased sentence maximums and criticism of the government. The only connection made is that the two things are mentioned in the same article. The idea that you've come away with is not based in fact, but in poor reporting.
- redthrowaway 15y agoIn the FBI's defence (and I'm loathe to go to bat for it), they have been actively targeting carders. It's by no means a comprehensive approach to security, but they are at least going after credit fraud. Now, whether that's to protect consumers or creditors is a different matter...