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FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches

Statesman writes "The Los Angeles Times reports that an Arizona crime lab technician found two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles, so similar that they would ordinarily be accepted in court as a match, but one felon was black and the other white. The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. Dozens of similar matches have been found, and these findings raise questions about the accuracy of the FBI's DNA statistics. Scientists and legal experts want to test the accuracy of official statistics using the nearly 6 million profiles in CODIS, the national system that includes most state and local databases. The FBI has tried to block distribution of the Arizona results and is blocking people from performing similar searches using CODIS.

FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows

mattnyc99 writes "The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new biometric software system that could store millions of iris scans within 10 years and has privacy advocates crying foul. Quoting: 'The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which could cost as much as $1 billion over its 10-year life cycle, will create an unprecedented database of biometric markers, such as facial images and iris scans. For criminal investigators, NGI could be as useful as DNA some day — a distinctive scar or a lopsided jaw line could mean the difference between a cold case and closed one.

FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant

An anonymous reader writes "Two FBI agents walked into a public library in Maryland, without a warrant, and walked out with two computers. The library director agreed to release the machines to these smooth-talking feds. According to the article, the director of Frederick County Public Libraries indicated that this was the third time in his 10 years there that the FBI had requested records, but the first time they had come without a court order. The director seemed to indicate no regrets, stating 'It was a decision I made on my experience and the information given to me.' He further justified his actions, noting that the agents indicated specific computers they needed (of the several dozen in the library) and further that they 'had an awful lot of information.

FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech

Anti-Globalism sends in a Reuters account of an appeals court hearing in which an unnamed ISP is challenging the Patriot Act "National Security Letter" provision that allows the FBI to issue secret letters to ISPs and telecoms, demanding customer records. "A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a US government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret... Between 2003 and 2006 nearly 200,000 national security letters were sent out. Of those about 97 percent received gag orders."

FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969

xmedar writes "In his talks about the history of Apple, Woz has often recounted how the 1971 Esquire article 'Secrets of the Little Blue Box' set him on the road to phone phreaking. Now someone has obtained the FBI file of one of the phreaks, Joe Engressia (who later changed his name to Joybubbles), via Freedom of Information requests. The file reveals that Engressia was illegally wiretapped by the FBI and the phone company back in 1969. J. Edgar Hoover considered the blind college student a national security risk and wrote a memo about him to John Ehrlichman."

FBI warns of new Storm worm variant

On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new e-mail campaign being used by the creators of the Storm Worm botnet.

FBI warns of new Storm worm variant

On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new e-mail campaign being used by the creators of the Storm Worm botnet.

FBI warns of new Storm worm variant

Techzonez On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new e-mail campaign being used by the creators of the Storm Worm botnet.

FBI on Vegas mob museum bandwagon

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The FBI says it has joined the backers of a new museum in Las Vegas that will be devoted to the shenanigans of organized crime in the gambling mecca's history.

FBI on Vegas mob museum bandwagon

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The FBI says it has joined the backers of a new museum in Las Vegas that will be devoted to the shenanigans of organized crime in the gambling mecca's history.

FBI trying reunite owners with stolen art

NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The FBI has posted on its Web site photos of art works recovered from a dead man's New York apartment to get them back to their rightful owners.

FBI warns of new Storm Worm attacks

A rash of complaints prompted the FBI to issue a warning of a new round of spam e-mails bombarding the Internet to spread the malicious Storm Worm.

FBI warns of new Storm Worm attacks

A rash of complaints prompted the FBI to issue a warning of a new round of spam e-mails bombarding the Internet to spread the malicious Storm Worm.

FBI warns of new Storm Worm attacks

A rash of complaints prompted the FBI to issue a warning of a new round of spam e-mails bombarding the Internet to spread the malicious Storm Worm.

FBI tracks down Whitianga hacker

A New Zealand computer hacker tracked down by the FBI will be sentenced in the high court at Hamilton on Tuesday morning.

FBI launches manhunt for spree killing suspect

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Authorities have captured an Illinois man suspected of killing eight people in two states, the FBI confirmed Tuesday.

FBI access to private data in Europe pending

Privacy campaigners are threatening to sue the European Commission over its plans to release citizens' data to the FBI.

The FBI: ?Do Not Open Unsolicited E-mails?

The FBI has decided to take more measures to fend off the wave of spam attacks in which the sender pretends to be a hitman hired to kill the recipient of the email, or a loved one. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a branch of the federal authority, has released an official note, advising people not to listen to the demands of a supposedly paid criminal who claims thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars (depending on their eagerness to become rich) from the victim.

New FBI Database to Include Photos and Palm Prints

Lockheed Martin has been tapped by the FBI to develop a system for storing and analyzing more biometric markers to augment the fingerprint collection system the agency already maintains. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) system will store photographs and palm prints, according to a story in Popular Mechanics, and may even include iris scans.

07:12am FBI tracks down Whitianga hacker

A New Zealand computer hacker tracked down by the FBI will be sentenced in the high court at Hamilton on Tuesday morning.

Facebook vs FBI emails are fake

Storm The Storm worm has surfaced once again, this time in emails that claim the FBI is using popular social network Facebook to track people.

Storm worm spoofs FBI story

The Storm worm is trying a new tactic to lure users by hiding its malware within a fake news story about the FBI and Facebook.

Dutch police and FBI crack Shadow botnet

The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit has cracked the Shadow botnet — thought to contain 100,000 PCs — in a joint operation with the FBI.

As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Attorney General Michael Mukasey has agreed to allow Congressional hearings, but not to delay, the implementation of new FBI regulations that would allow them to spy on American citizens who are not suspected of any crime. As an editorial in the New York Times points out, this is a power that has a history of abuse. In times past, it was used to wiretap Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to spy on other civil rights and anti-war protesters." As Dekortage points out, "Several senators have formally complained that citizens could be investigated 'without any basis for suspicion,' which the Justice Department denies."

Former G-man, 101, helps FBI mark its birthday

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Only one of the nearly 2,000 guests who attended the FBI's 100th birthday party Thursday was alive when a handful of investigators formed what was to become the world's premier law enforcement agency.

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