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cranston36
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Joined: 05 Feb 2006
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 Posted: 03/04/06 - 20:46 Post subject: Azmi and the FBI
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I have faith in my nation and in the FBI but it was shaken quite a bit lately..
I received an email that asked me for personal information about my retirement account. It was specific enough to make me suspicious and the fact that it came to an email address not connected with my retirement account led me to believe that it would be appropriate to report the matter.
I reported the item to the retirement system I use and also sent a copy to the FBI.
On the main page of the FBI web site along with information about their ‘New Cyber Center’, ‘The Trafficking of Persons’, ‘Charge in Texas Bomb Plot’ and how to ‘Help Prevent Terrorist Attacks’ there was a quiz on knowledge of the FBI in ‘pop culture’.
They featured an excerpt from a comic book magazine.
Here is the first thing I read when I went to the FBI site :
“The FBI has long been a fixture in our nation's popular culture; over the years we've been the focus of countless books, movies, TV and radio shows, comic books, even games and toys.”
These days they are focus of several investigations and I beginning to see why.
Did you know that the director of information services at the FBI is an Afghan who joined up during the time the Taliban was in power? He is Zalmai Azmi and has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in failed software and shows no sign of stopping
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Soriak
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 952
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Posted: 03/04/06 - 22:40 Post subject:
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I hope you didn't expect the FBI to jump right on the case - you got a phishing e-mail, join the club. With internet child pornography, terrorism, human trafficking, etc it's a rather low priority.
Don't see your problem with the FBI in pop culture? There are quite a few tv shows revolving around the FBI and they are in a ton of movies. That's what might get people interested in signing up with the FBI too. Or do you really think a 16 year old wants to sign up so he can read hundreds of files and do background research?
As for Azmi - born in Afghanistan, grew up and studied in the US though. Also didn't take office until 2003, which is after the Taliban were removed from power. No idea what kind of IT projects he tried, but I think there was the idea of a huge national database once. Not surprisingly, that didn't work out - but somehow I doubt he had the authority to come up with such a massive project.
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Yellow Journalist
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Joined: 20 Oct 2002
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Posted: 03/04/06 - 23:54 Post subject:
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motherface
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 01:05 Post subject:
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Welcome to the Internets.
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kbarr
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Joined: 05 Oct 2004
Posts: 11239
Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 05:16 Post subject:
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cranston36
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Joined: 05 Feb 2006
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 11:43 Post subject:
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Azmi, in many circles, is generally regarded as a hack.
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Brael
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 12:58 Post subject:
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Would this be one of your circles (not that you have any credability anyways) or the so called circles your email chain letters you constantlly repost tell you exist?
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Docter
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Joined: 21 Oct 2002
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 16:24 Post subject:
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| cranston36 wrote: | | Azmi, in many circles, is generally regarded as a hack. |
Oh man, you did it didn't you??? You overlapped the tin foil in your tin foil hat...that's how they get to you man...the overlapping cancels the effect...allowing the FBI to get to you...trust me on this one!!!!
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Ishmael
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Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Posts: 4446
Location: The US of A
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 19:29 Post subject:
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f**k I OVERLAPPEDN IT T
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