Re: Fwd: How to Steal a Mainframe

["gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Goncalo Costa 
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com 
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 12:11 AM
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: How to Steal a Mainframe




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> > Two unidentified unsubs posing as EDS contractors illegally gained access
> > to sensitive computer equipment at Sydney International Airport and
> > wheeled out a couple of IBM servers. These servers we are told contained
> > confidential information and may even hold details of ongoing
> > international investigations into terror acts. The data could reveal the
> > identities and activities of undercover agents from Western governments.

Worse than this, the Federal minister in charge of the Australian Federal Police and our spy agency ASIO said that 
there was no way in the world anyone could get anything at all off the hard disks as the files were routinely deleted. 
He said this AFTER the report that sensitive information between the two bodies passed through these servers. What gets 
me is only 2 servers were stolen and yet they were in there 2 hours "unhooking the computers" so it was said. Doesnt 
take that long just to "unhook".

Seems to me someone has a lot of data they shouldnt have, now, using the stealing of the computers to mask whatever it 
was they really did. Given the media reports that the people who did it were likely to be terrorists and not thieves, 
you have to wonder what just happened in there.

Greg.

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