spooky: ex-hacker unter sich

- hier schreibt Poulsen bei "wired" über Lamo (), der Manning als Wikileaks-Whistleblower an USA verpfiffen hat.

bei Wikipedia übrigens zusammen mit Mitnick auf einem Photo...

dazu fefe:

Kevin Poulson ist ein "Ex-Hacker", den sie mit der Androhung von einer fetten Haftstrafe "reformiert" haben. Offiziell ist er jetzt "Journalist" und arbeitet für Wired, wo er eine nicht unspannende... Kolumne schreibt.

Inoffiziell heißt es, dass er jetzt für das FBI bzw. die Dienste arbeitet. Adrian Lamo ist ebenfalls ein Ex-Hacker, der als "obdachloser Hacker" Berühmtheit erlangte. Es heißt, er ist ein Kumpel von Kevin Poulson. Ich kenne beide nicht persönlich, und würde beiden nichts anvertrauen. So läuft das halt in Amerika. Da hast du die freie Wahl zwischen "federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison" und einem Job als FBI-Informant.

Whistleblowing

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• Clive Ponting, a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence who leaked classified documents to Labour Member of Parliament, Tam Dalyell confirming that the General Belgrano was sunk by United Kingdom forces during the Falklands War while outside the total exclusion zone, contradicting statements by the UK Government.

• Samuel Provance, a system administrator for Military Intelligence at the Abu Ghraib prison who publicly revealed the role of interrogators in the abuses, as well the general effort to cover-up the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse itself.

• Peter Rost (doctor). Peter Rost was a former vice president at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer that reported about accounting irregularities and other irregularities to the US authorities. In response to his whistleblowing he was exiled internally by Pfizer and removed from all responsibilities and decision making. In 2004, he testified in Congress as a private individual in favour of drug reimportation, a position strongly at odds with the official policy of the pharmaceutical industry. In December 2005, Rost was fired from Pfizer. In September 2006 he published his experiences in the book “The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman”

• Philip Schneider, a former U.S. geologist who helped constructing various classified military underground bases, who gave public lectures around 1995 (some of which are available in youtube). Among his claims were ones that the United States would become a New World Order dictatorship within the next few months or years. He was found dead in his apartment in January 1996.

• Frank Serpico, a former New York City police officer who reported several of his fellow officers for bribery and related charges. He is the first officer to testify against police corruption.

• Karen Silkwood, a labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. The 1983 film Silkwood is an account of this story.

• Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Air Force, Office of Naval Intelligence, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Most recently he is one of the sources used by the New York Times in reporting on the NSA wiretapping controversy. He had earlier been known for reporting suspicions that a DIA colleague of his might be a Chinese spy.

• Linda Tripp, a former White House staff member who disclosed to the Office of Independent Counsel that Monica Lewinsky committed perjury and attempted to suborn perjury, and President Bill Clinton committed misconduct, by denying the Clinton-Lewinsky relationship in the Paula Jones federal civil rights suit. A victim of retaliation by the Clinton Administration, Tripp won her lawsuit against the federal government for violating the Privacy Act of 1974 when it leaked personal information about her to the press.

• John Paul Vann, an American colonel, who, during the Vietnam War, reported to his superiors that American policy and tactics were seriously flawed, and later went to the media with his concerns. Vann was asked to resign his commission, did so, but later returned to Vietnam.

• M.N. Vijayakumar, an IAS officer in Karnataka, India is a whistle blower who exposed serious corrupt practices at high levels. His wife, Jayashree J.N, fearing for his life set up a website detailing her husband's efforts to fight corruption. See here as to what Transparency International says about them and the New York Times report here
• Mark Whitacre, a PhD scientist and very senior executive with Archer Daniels Midland, who worked with the FBI as a secret informant, to blow the whistle on price-fixing in his company. This story is featured in the film The Informant!.
• Jeffrey Wigand, a former executive of Brown & Williamson who exposed his company's practice of intentionally manipulating the effect of nicotine in cigarettes on the CBS news program 60 Minutes. Famously known as the man who blew the whistle on Big Tobacco and almost single-handedly revealed the health dangers of smoking to the public. The story was dramatized in the 1999 film The Insider, in which Russell Crowe portrayed Wigand.
• Andrew Wilkie, an Australian intelligence officer at the Office of National Assessments who resigned in March 2003 over concerns intelligence reports were incorrectly claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
• Joseph Wilson, former U.S. ambassador, whose July 6, 2003 editorial in The New York Times, "What I Didn't Find In Africa", exposed pretexts for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^{[unbalanced opinion]}
• Edmund Dene Morel a British accountant who reported on the uncommon trading practices between the Congo Free State and Europe which led to a strong campaign about Belgian King Leopold autocratic regime on his African territory.
• Dr. David Graham, who discovered that the pain-reliever Vioxx increased the risk of cardiovascular problems, spoke out against the policies of the Food and Drug Administration, and succeeded in convincing the FDA to require large warning labels on Vioxx packaging.
• Rick S. Piltz, who worked with the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and blew the whistle on Philip Cooney, a White House official who edited a climate change report to reflect the administration's views without having any scientific background.

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• Ingvar Bratt, a former Bofors engineer who revealed himself as the anonymous source in the Bofors Scandal about illegal weapon exports. An act that led to a new Swedish law (SFS 1990:409) concerning company secrets which commonly is referred to as Lex Bratt.

• Gerald W. Brown, a former firestop contractor and consultant, uncovered the Thermo-lag circuit integrity scandal and silicone foam scandals in US and Canadian nuclear power plants, which led to Congressional proceedings as well as Provincial proceedings in the Canadian Province of Ontario concerning deficiencies in passive fire protection.

• Pascal Diethelm and Jean-Charles Rielle, Swiss tobacco control advocates and alumni from the University of Geneva who revealed the secret ties of Ragnar Rylander, professor of environmental health, to the tobacco industry. In a public statement made in 2001, Pascal Diethelm and Jean-Charles Rielle accused Rylander of being "secretly employed by Philip Morris" and qualified of "scientific fraud without precedent" the concealment of his links with the tobacco industry for a period of 30 years, during which he publicly presented himself as an independent scientist, while obeying orders given by Philip Morris executives and lawyers, publishing articles and organizing symposia which denied or trivialized the toxicity of secondhand smoke. After a long trial, which went up to the supreme court of Switzerland, all accusations were found to be true.^[1] http://www.prevention.ch/ryjue151203.pdf
  Following this judgment, the University of Geneva prohibited its members from soliciting research subsidies or direct or indirect consultancies with the tobacco industry.^[2] http://www.prevention.ch/rye060904.pdf

• Duncan Edmonds, a Canadian civil servant who in 1984 reported to his chief, the top Canadian civil servant, that Minister of Defence Robert Coates had visited a West German strip club while on an official mission, with NATO documents in his possession, creating a security risk. Coates was asked to resign from Cabinet by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who also fired Edmonds and made him persona non grata in government circles.^{[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sawatsky}
  

• A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a U.S. Department of Defense auditor who was fired in 1973 by President Richard M. Nixon for exposing to Congress the tidal wave of cost overruns associated with Lockheed's C-5A cargo plane. After protracted litigation he was reinstated to the civil service and continued to report cost overruns and military contractor fraud, including discovery in the 1980s that the Air Force was being charged $400 for hammers and $600 for toilet seats. Mr. Fitzgerald retired from the Defense Department in 2006. ^[4] "What's New" Archives

• Bunnatine "Bunny" H. Greenhouse, a former chief civilian contracting officer for the United States Army Corps of Engineers who exposed illegality in the no-bid contracts for reconstruction in Iraq by a Halliburton subsidiary.^[5] washingtonpost.com - A Web of Truth

• Janet Howard, Tanya Ward Jordan and Joyce E. Megginson, who blew the whistle on widespread systemic racism and retaliation within the Department of Commerce against African-American employees.^[6] Federal Employees Legal Defense Fund

• Mark Klein, a retired communications technician for AT&T, revealed the details of his personal knowledge of the secret 2003 construction of a monitoring facility in Room 641A of 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco, the site of a large SBC phone building, three floors of which are occupied by AT&T. The facility is alleged to be one of several operated by the National Security Agency as part of the warrantless surveillance undertaken by the Bush administration in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.^[7] "Spying on the Home Front" - Interview with Mark Klein"
  & http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews/klein.html

• Robert MacLean, a U.S. Federal Air Marshal who exposed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2003, for an agency-wide plan to remove Federal Air Marshals from nonstop, long distance flights for two months in order to avoid expenditures associated with air marshals lodging in hotels overnight. The plan was formulated in response to a budget shortfall due to overspending. The plan was formulated three days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an Advisory that warned the airline industry and law enforcement of a suicide hijacking plot in which terrorists would exploit U.S. immigration and airport security loopholes. After outrage from U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton^[8], Charles Schumer^[9], Barbara Boxer^[10], and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney^[11], TSA's plan was rescinded before becoming operational. MacLean was fired after DHS discovered he disclosed the plan.^[12]

• Myron Mehlman, a toxicologist who in 1989 warned managers at Mobil that the company's gasoline that was being sold in Japan contained benzene in excess of 5 percent, and that levels needed to be reduced. Upon his return to the United States, he was fired. He later successfully sued the company.^[13]

• Paul Moore, an executive at the UK bank HBOS who in 2005 was fired, allegedly after warning his senior colleagues that the company's sales strategy was at odds with prudent management. In 2009 Moore spoke out about his warnings to the Treasury Select Committee of parliament during its investigation into the turmoil in the UK banking system ^[14].

• Dr Rita Pal is a UK NHS Whistleblower. Raised issues of patient neglect on Ward 87 North Staffordshire NHS Trust Stoke on Trent in 1998. Professor Steve Bolsin's report is detailed here^[15] and 2001 Internal Report into the ward is detailed ^[16]. Concerns raised with the General Medical Council UK but investigation reversed on the whistleblower. The GMC raised the spectre of mental illness to discredit the whistleblowing issues. Dr Pal subsequently sued in libel.^[17] R Pal v General Medical Council, Sarah Bedwell, Peter Lynn and Catherine Green is the first libel case in the history of the GMC and Dr Pal won on strike out and settled by a whistleblower. Dr Pal have also whistleblown in the London Sunday Times 2 April 2000^[18] Currently Dr Pal edits and features matters exclusively related to the NHS on ^{[19] [20]} She also writes http://www.ward87.blogspot.com, a website outlining her experiences on whistleblowing as well as other tales.

• Wendell Potter is the former head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. In June 2009 he testified against the HMO industry in the US Senate as a whistleblower[2][3].
• Ramin Pourandarjani, an Iranian physician, reported on the state use of torture on political prisoners. He died of poisoning shortly thereafter.[4]

• William Sanjour, a whistleblower at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for over 20 years who also wrote on whistleblower protection issues.^[21] He won a landmark law suit against the federal government which established the First Amendment rights of federal employees to "blow the whistle" on their employer. [Sanjour v. EPA,56 F.3d 85 (D.C. Cir. 1995)(en banc)]

• Mordechai Vanunu^[22][23] who revealed Israel's clandestine nuclear program to the British press in 1986. He spent seventeen and a half years in prison as a result, the first eleven of these in solitary confinement. After his release, sanctions were placed on him: among others, he was not allowed to leave Israel or speak to foreigners. The sanctions have been renewed every twelve months. At present, he is appealing a further six month prison sentence imposed by an Israeli court for having spoken to foreigners and foreign press.

• Frederic Whitehurst, a chemist at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation who was the FBI Laboratory's foremost expert on explosives residue in the 1990s, and became the first modern-day FBI whistleblower. He reported a lack of scientific standards and serious flaws in the FBI Lab, including in the first World Trade Center bombing cases and the Oklahoma City bombing case. Dr. Whitehurst's whistleblower disclosures triggered an overhaul of the FBI's crime lab following a report by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General in 1997. Dr. Whitehust filed a federal lawsuit claiming whistleblower retaliation, and he reached a settlement with the FBI worth more than $1.16 million. ^[24] Whitehurst now directs the FBI Oversight Project of the National Whistleblower Center.

• Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who exposed irregularities at the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crime Lab.

Quellen:

1. ^ http://www.prevention.ch/ryjue151203.pdf
2. ^ http://www.prevention.ch/rye060904.pdf
3. ^ The Insiders: Government, Business, and the Lobbyists, by John Sawatsky, 1987)
4. ^ "What's New" Archives
5. ^ washingtonpost.com - A Web of Truth
6. ^ Federal Employees Legal Defense Fund
7. ^ Frontline (2007-01-09). ""Spying on the Home Front" - Interview with Mark Klein". Public Broadcasting System. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews/klein.html. Retrieved 2007-08-15.

1. ^ "Senator Clinton Reiterates Call on TSA to Justify Security Cuts at Nation’s Airports". Official Site of the U.S. Senate. 2003-07-30. http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=235267&&. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
2. ^ "Top al Qaeda operative told of possible hijackings". CNN. 2003-07-31. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/30/airline.warning/index.html?iref=newssearch. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
3. ^ "TSA in `witch hunt,' air marshals say". MSNBC. 2003-08-11. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/TSAwitchHunt.html. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
4. ^ "Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Request for Full Case Review" (PDF). Project On Government Oversight. 2006-10-20. http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/gp/gp-MacLean-10202006.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
5. ^ Margasak, Larry (May 10, 2007). "U.S. Labels 2003 Memo 'Sensitive'". Associated Press. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-10-1106927580_x.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-10.
6. ^ Horowitz, Joy (2007). "Razzle-Dazzle". Parts per million: the poisoning of Beverly Hills High School. Viking. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-0670037988. http://books.google.ca/books?id=WjLUcoe5j00C&dq=parts+per+million%2Bhorowitz&q=Myron+Mehlman#v=snippet&q=Myron%20Mehlman&f=false.
7. ^ "HBOS whistleblower probe demanded". BBC News. 2009-02-11. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7882119.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
8. ^ http://www.nhsexposed.com/healthworkers/doctors/gmc/steve-bolsin-report.doc
9. ^ NHS Exposed - The Truth Behind The White Coat - A Killing Field - Ward 87, City General Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent
10. ^ [1]
11. ^ Elderly are helped to die to clear beds, claims doctor
12. ^ http://www.nhsexposed.com and the blog
13. ^ NHS
14. ^ Collected Papers of William Sanjour
15. ^ BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/correspondent/transcripts/17_03_2003.txt. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
16. ^ Capturing nuclear whistle-blower was `a lucky stroke,' agents recall - Haaretz - Israel News
17. ^ CNN - FBI whistle-blower leaves, gets $1.16 million - February 27, 1998

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• Bradley Manning, a computer security specialist believed to be responsible for the United States Diplomatic Cables Leak

• Babak Pasdar, a computer security consultant performing contract work for a major telecom carrier in late 2003, revealed that a U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia had direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voicecalls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance. "What I thought was alarming is how this carrier ended up essentially allowing a third party outside their organization to have unfettered access to their environment," said Babak Pasdar, now CEO of New-York based Bat Blue. "I wanted to put some access controls around it; they vehemently denied it. And when I wanted to put some logging around it, they denied that." Pasdar executed a seven-page affidavit for the nonprofit Government Accountability Project in Washington.

• Michael Paul a former senior technical analyst of the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts publicly disclosed in December of 2009 that tens of millions of dollars worth of overpriced construction work was being steered to unlicensed contractors in a bid rigging scheme that involved his employer and public funds. After Mr. Paul went public with his allegations as well as his previous requests to his employer for a qui tam release required under the states false claims act, the California Administrative Office of the Courts filed suit to recover a fraction of the monies paid to the unlicensed contractors, demoted Mr. Paul and extended the terms of the underlying contracts, contracts that are deemed void under the California Business & Professions Code. In response, Mr. Paul filed a taxpayer lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court to recover all of the false claims paid and to enjoin the California Administrative Office of the Courts from wasting taxpayer funds. He was promptly fired in violation of the California False Claims Act, the California Whistleblower Protection Act and the California Labor Code.

• Stanley Adams, a former Hoffmann-LaRoche executive, who discovered evidence of price fixing in 1973. He passed the evidence to the European Economic Community, who erroneously leaked Adams' name back to Hoffman-LaRoche. Adams was arrested for industrial espionage by the Swiss government and spent six months in jail. He fought for ten years to clear his name and receive compensation from the EEC.

1. ^ Barboza, David (1999-10-10). "Tearing Down The Facade of 'Vitamins Inc.'". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E1DB1131F933A25753C1A96F958260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
2. ^ Adams, Stanley (1984). Roche versus Adams. London: J. Cape. ISBN 0-224-02180-X.
3. ^ Mathiason, Nick (2001-11-25). "Blowing the final whistle". The Observer. http://education.guardian.co.uk/businessofresearch/comment/0,9976,606260,00.html. Retrieved 2007-09-09.

• Marta Andreasen, an Argentine-born Spanish accountant, employed in January 2002 by the European Commission as Chief Accountant, and notable for raising concerns about fraud potential within EU, neglected by the Commission.

• Stephen Bolsin, a consultant anaesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, identified that too many babies were dying during heart surgery. He spent the next six years confirming the high mortality rates and attempting to improve the service. By doing this Dr Bolsin developed a higher ethical standard in health care. This standard related to a higher quality of care and introduced the measurement of performance and performance monitoring in the NHS. This led to a fall in mortality rates for children’s heart surgery in Bristol from 30% to less than 5%. These dramatic improvements have been sustained and ongoing in Bristol as well as affecting all areas of healthcare in the UK.
  
  BBC, Bolsin: the Bristol whistleblower

• Paul van Buitenen, who exposed irregularities in the European Commission (See Resignation of the Santer Commission).

• Dr. Donald Merino, who exposed Stevens Institute of Technology for abuse of the endowment, keeping multiple sets of books, misleading of the board and illegal low interest loans to the president.
• Anat Kamm, who leaked documents to the media that revealed the Israeli Defense Force had been engaging in extrajudicial killings.