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Holy Crap Alert: GAO Stings Nuclear Agency; Obtains License to Buy Ra dioactive Materials
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:41:56 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I know I can sleep better tonight knowing this. How about you? Via ABC News' "The Blotter". [snip] To start, the investigators set up a dummy construction company that in reality was no more than a mail drop in Martinsburg, W.Va. Twenty-eight days and no questions from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission later, the "company" received a license to legally buy certain quantities of Americium-241 and Cesium-137. "It was much too easy, much too easy, to get the licenses that would have allowed individuals setting up a dummy corporation to obtain enough material to create a dirty bomb," said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who initiated the investigation in his role as ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. [snip] More: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/goa-stings-nucl.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGlWrBq1pz9mNUZTMRAtx6AKC6KVzFYsTlvIlsa21wRGtXGK+91QCfVhle MFXHvotdsmv1gajivGwpB60= =W3Ag -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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