Reverse Hacker Awarded $4.3 Million

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."

Re:Gray and pointless.

[ArsenneLupin]

It's like when people say that someone is a "reverse racist".

The word you're looking for is "affirmative actor"...

Re:He anayzed?

[Aladrin]

My uncle was an anayzer, you insensitive clod!

Re:Am I The Only One Alarmed By....

[MightyYar]

Someone really should try to implement his ideas on a country-wide scale.

Re:Am I The Only One Alarmed By....

[mblase]

"A capitalist will sell you the rope you will hang him with if he can make profit on it." - Lenin

"I'm sorry, but the knot you're tying in that noose is copyrighted and patented by my corporation, and in any event the end user license specifically forbids using it to hang their employees or those of organizations doing business with them. I have a cease-and-desist order right here, and I'm afraid I'll need to ask for the names, addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers of all your executioners past and present to ensure they're not in violation of our intellectual property."

Re:Most amazing quote from the article

[bluefoxlucid]

Your wife works here, Mr. Anderson? With nuclear material, you say? Hmm... it would be a shame if she was demoted to D-LINC status and no longer permitted to tie up valuable rad suit resources from all the other more substantial employees....

Re:Gray and pointless.

[Nykon]

"If I was running a labratory that was working on some cutting edge military technology, why would I have any of the labs computers connected to the Internet????"

Umm hellllo. How do you expect the scientists to check their myspace?? ;-)

Re:Gray and pointless. - no.. you need to hack-gee

[Anonymous Coward]

That's nothing. If anyone even thinks about my IP in their browser, I hack into their mind with my leet ESP skillz and take thier mind out. Then I find out where the live, and go there and kick their puppy if they have one. Then, if they ever think about my IP address again I just kill them with my arsenal of atomic warheads I bought from Saddam over TCP.

Re:Gray and pointless.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's right next to the one to mod all posts _by_ neocons to -6.

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Let me get this straight...

[bigbigbison]

So someone finds out that another government has stollen actual secrets from the US, reports it, gets fired, then wins a lawsuit and this is obscure news. But an advertising company puts up some signs in Boston and it is all over the news. Let's see, stolen government secrets vs. publicity stunt gone bad. Damn that mainstream media and their liberal bias!