Presented at
H2K2 (2002),
July 12, 2002, 9 p.m.
(Unknown duration)
On May 29, the Federal Bureau of Investigation dramatically changed its focus. Now, instead of investigating crimes, its mission is to prevent them, meaning they have virtual carte blanche to infiltrate any law abiding organization or gathering to make sure all is right. And, even better, their third priority of dangerous crimes to stop (next to terrorism and espionage) is "cybercrime." We all know what a wide net that can be. Hear the dangers firsthand from the people who follow this kind of thing.
Presenters:
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Declan McCullagh
Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent and a senior writer for CNET's news.com. An award-winning journalist, he writes and speaks frequently about technology, law, and politics. For the last four years, he has been the Washington bureau chief for Wired News. Previously he was a reporter for Time Digital Daily, Time's The Netly News, and Time Magazine, as well as a correspondent for HotWired. McCullagh moderates Politech, a well-known mailing list looking broadly at politics and technology that he founded in 1994.
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Mike Levine
Mike Levine is the host of The Expert Witness Radio Show on WBAI-FM in New York. He is a veteran of 25 years of covert and deep cover operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration and one of its most highly decorated officers. He is also a world recognized court-qualified expert witness, trial consultant, and lecturer in all matters relating to human intelligence, covert operations, narcotics trafficking, police procedures, RICO and conspiracy investigations, and the use of force. Levine has testified as an expert in over 500 civil and criminal trials internationally and domestically. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller Deep Cover and the national best-seller The Big White Lie.
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Robert David Steele
Robert Steele, a 25 year veteran of the U.S. national security community and counter of oss.net, is the author of The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political - Citizen's Action Handbook on Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, and Corruption. He gave the keynote address back in 1994 at the first HOPE conference. He's been described by writer Bruce Sterling as "10,000 times as dangerous as the best of the hackers, for he is successfully hacking the most challenging of bureaucracies, the U.S. intelligence community, and doing it for the right reasons."
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