-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Michael Smith <mksmith@adhost.com> wrote:

We did exactly that with a similar incident and the local FBI Cyber Crimes folks told us that they couldn't help us because they were entirely dedicated to potential terrorist activities. So, I would say "contact local authorities and play it up as a terrorist act" if you want any help at all.

Indeed -- thanks for reminding me of that. :-) In fact, Brian Krebs over at the Washington Post wrote a nice article on this very issue last month: "The cyber portion of the 2008 [FBI budget] request includes a request for $258.5 million in funding for some 659 field agents, a 1.5 percent increase over 2007 levels. That's 659 out of a total of 11,868 FBI agents nationwide, which would mean the FBI is on track to dedicate roughly 5.5 percent of its agents to cyber crime investigations. But as we'll see later, the true number may actually be lower." http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/09/is_cyber_crime_a_distant _3rd_p.html Cheers, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHD+1kq1pz9mNUZTMRAl24AJ4+XV3I44EXglS+lHjs+tyjA2UC8gCg0fk7 cWx8xPg/5Chqc82Li5OpN+w= =1IUs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/