David P. Marziliano.

This posting isn't about the many good FBI and other law enforcement people.

Sorry.



The other FBI case involved transfer of Salomon technology to the ISP account
of an employee who had accepted another job, but hadn't yet notified Salomon.

They mailed home to themselves Salomon's Risk Management financial code.

The Salomon Managing Director in charge was not amused.

The ex-Salomon person had transferred it to their home ISP account, and
started working for Jefferies Securities.


I found this transfer to Jefferies Securities in the backups too:


********** begin excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' **********

Dumb-and-Dumber incident:
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Sender:
date: 28 Feb 96 8:14:56 EDT
subject: Greetings!
Recipient:

Drake.
Favor time! I need documentation on application packaging (FOR DUMB
PEOPLE). Yeah, I know you taught me it already, but I've forgotten it all.
I need to roll out packaging mechanisms here at Jefferies. I really miss
all the infrastructure mechanisms I took for granted at Salomon.

********** end excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' **********


That document was labelled as Salomon proprietary on each page.

The FBI got search warrants and went into Jefferies and took control of
a couple systems, and went home with the Ex-Salomon person and searched
there and took his computer systems. [The case is still pending @6/97]




The code is simple. It's choosing the keyword filtration sequence that's
tricky. I figured out how to determine it in an almost systemic way. Oddly
enough, I needed no keywords for specifically seeking out source code.


So, keyword monitoring is highly effective, I could even cover three feeds,
and, sigh, I should mention that it took well le