Comments on: Out of the shadows, a pretexter's tale

HP's boardroom scandal has cast a new light on the dirty deeds of data traffickers. James Rapp used to be one of them.

[CancerMan2]

Keyworth Spying: Sweet Irony

It is ironic that George Keyworth was a victim of the very policies that his "neutral" think tank The Progress & Freedom Foundation (www.pff.org) advocates. PFF never met a government regulation it liked, and would surely not support more "burdensome" government regulation against pretexting. Indeed, it advocates for even more personal information consolidation by corporations who collect, consolidate, and datamine and then sell off YOUR personal info to the highest bidder. Read some of their studies in the Areas of Study Section. Yeah, they are really unbiased. PFF a think tank, that it rich. It is nothing more than a right-wing lobbyist group.

[blw1540]

Pretexting?

Ask "Susan Thunder" about "social engineering."

[J.G.]

Rapp aided destruction of suspect computer

According to today's WSJ, Rapp tipped off his nephew , a pretexter in the HP case. The nephew says he has destroyed the computer used.