Contents of Leaked HBGary Emails Reveal Wrongdoing 369
chargersfan420 writes "Ars Technica has sifted through the contents of the HBGary emails leaked last week in the attack by Anonymous and posted an interesting story about some of the things they were up to (which include rootkit development, selling rootkits to the private sector, and an entire list of 0-day exploits in a variety of OSes and other software, among a variety of other devious plans). Today they are reporting a democratic push for a congressional investigation of HBGary Federal."
Re:I call shenanigans (Score:4, Informative)
RTFA.
There were contracts and delivered goods with 0-day kits to both government and corporate sources.
Re:Careful what you wish for (Score:4, Informative)
You're going to dig for info on their union-busting, but you're going to be very embarrassed if you find out that the Obama administration was in bed with these scumbags on some other sleazy project(s) that come up too.
If Obama has unclean hands he deserves whatever he gets.
In reality, this is nothing but empty sabre rattling.
Re:Careful what you wish for (Score:4, Informative)
I think you may be mistaken. It may fall under bulletpoint #3, but I doubt that covers a corporation.
Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rules
Courts will sometimes allow illegally-obtained evidence to be used in a criminal trial. This usually occurs when the court realizes that the information is vital to incriminating a person who may be guilty of a serious offense.
Evidence obtained illegally may be excluded from the exclusionary rule when it:
* Comes from a private person who was not acting for the government
* Comes from the state government, which turns the evidence over to the federal government
* Violated a person’s rights, but the person is not the one who is on trial
* Would have been found eventually through legal means
* Cannot be used to the defendant’s advantage because of other evidence
In short, when the federal government has jurisdiction over a case, any evidence that a third-party obtained can be used in the case as long as the federal government did not ask that third party to commit the act.
http://www.lassiterlawoffice.com/articles/the-exclusionary-rule/ [lassiterlawoffice.com]