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[Scott Petersen]

> It has come to my attention from unclassified Russian-language sources
> that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), has attached devices
> to *all* ISPs in Russia in order to download and read e-mail, with
> special
> emphasis on e-mail going to and from foreign addresses. The purpose is
> to extract credit card numbers, bank account numbers and social
> security/identity numbers for the purposes of credit card fraud, bank
> fraud and identity theft, with the proceeds to be split between
> corrupt FSB officials and Russian organized crime entities. It is not
> known, but is suspected, that this is "semi-official" FSB policy, or
> at least higher-level authorities are looking the other way. FSB and
> other national level organizations are using their computer assets to
> break the encryption on e-mails to extract this information. More
> information as it becomes available.

I have received this from another list. Has anyone heard anything
similar, or does it sound apocryphal?

Scott Petersen
Nagoya, Japan

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