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Pioneering Federal Computer Sabotage Case Resulting Conviction

Calendar Jun 26, 2000 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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How a Secret Service agent, a data recovery expert and a federal prosecutor team to secure the first ever conviction on federal computer sabotage charges. "Lloyd, a former network administrator at Omega Engineering Corp., thought he had not only destroyed his former employer's manufacturing capabilities, but also had destroyed the evidence that would link him to the crime as well.. . . How a Secret Service agent, a data recovery expert and a federal prosecutor team to secure the first ever conviction on federal computer sabotage charges. "Lloyd, a former network administrator at Omega Engineering Corp., thought he had not only destroyed his former employer's manufacturing capabilities, but also had destroyed the evidence that would link him to the crime as well.

The one thing Lloyd didn't count on was that there were investigators with enough computer savvy to put the pieces of what prosecutors described as his "elaborate and Machiavellian plan" back together and trace the evidence to Lloyd's own doorstep."

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