[pchelpers] News: Reverse Hacker Awarded $4.3 Million

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 27, @09:48AM
from the now-i-want-to-be-a-reverse-hacker dept.

jcatcw writes "Shawn Carpenter was awarded a $4.3 million award — more
than twice the amount he sought and money he thinks he'll never see.
Carpenter worked for Sandia National Labs as an intrusion detection
analyst. He anayzed. He detected. He reported. He was fired — in
Janurary 2005 after sharing his results with the FBI and the U.S. Army.
Computerworld asked him what he hoped to achieve in that investigation.
Answer: 'In late May of 2004, one of my investigations turned up a large
cache of stolen sensitive documents hidden on a server in South Korea.
In addition to U.S. military information, there were hundreds of pages
of detailed schematics and project information marked 'Lockheed Martin
Proprietary Information — Export Controlled' that were associated with
the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... It was a case of putting the
interests of the corporation over those of the country.' Ira Winkler,
author of  Spies Among Us , said the verdict was 'incredibly justified.
Frankly, I think people [at Sandia] should go to jail' for ignoring some
of the security issues that Carpenter was trying to highlight with his
investigation."

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