Computer Consultant Hacked Secret Passwords of FBI Director, Others

FBI computer consultant was director of the secret password Robert Mueller and others using free software found on the Internet, the latest Gan Ga, in the Bureau of the long-term struggle in order to modernize the computer.

Consultants, Joseph Thomas colon cancer Springfield, Illinois, pleaded guilty 4 misdemeanor intentional beyond his authorized computer access, and prosecutors recommended about a year in prison.

Colon cancer defence lawyers demanded that the United States District Court Judge Richard Leon for probation, and striving an employee in the FBI The Springfield office gave Colon password to obtain click "secret system to speed up the installation of a new computer system. The work part of the trilogy crash Miller abandoned the project last year.

Prosecutors do not believe Colon tried to undermine national security or use the information for financial gain. Also, they say, in court documents, and FBI was forced to take significant steps to ensure that there is no damage colon cancer action.

His trial was postponed to Tuesday and reset for July 13.

Colon, 28, lost his job and security clearance after he confirmed He entered the deepest pollution prevention FBI internal computer network on four occasions in 2004.

He used two computer programs to extract information and crack the code of Muller and others, according to his plea agreement.

It is not clear from court documents, so he asked so many passwords.

FBI would not comment on the details of the case. Lawyer Richard winelander colon cancer, did not respond to messages Thursday from The Associated Press.

In court papers, Colon argued that in the end of March 2004, he and FBI information technology employees in Springfield grow frustrated with bureaucratic delays in performing "This is routine and fuel mandate, as established workstations, printers, user accounts and personal computers, from one operating system, in another. " A staff identified as a colon FBI agents, and give him a password, he can use, in order to avoid delays. Colon entered the password secret user name and password file .

FBI has beefed up its systems to prevent unauthorized access, the FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said.

FBI has spent nearly 600 million US dollars to implement a high-speed, security computer network and 30,000 new desktop computers. Trilogy technology upgrade prior to the beginning, and even attacks on September 11, 2001, highlighted computer problems people in the FBI . Miller but scrapped the final phase of this program, a paperless case management system the so-called virtual case file, the consultants said that this is outdated and flawed a lot of problems.

March of this year, the FBI said it would spend an additional 425 million US dollars to establish and run sentinel system. It is expected to completed in late 2009.

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