The Seattle Times on Monday reported that the FBI and the department of Justice were searching for two men who have been indicted for Hacking a Software company for fluid dynamics analysis programs used in the creation of GPS guided artillery shells. The issue the Seattle Times was noting is that these two men, who are still at large, where connected to a third Iranian who was pardoned by President Obama as part of a prisoner exchange with Iran.
The software stolen is clearly ITAR restricted, so its a national security issue. But one has to wonder what the pardoned Iranian did to get arrested and held by the United States. The two men being sought by the FBI, may in fact be in Ira; they may have done the Hack over the internet and never entered the United States. That being said, did the third person in this story, the man actually held by the Justice Department, set up some kind of back door to this company for the other two men to exploit via the internet. And, if this is the case, by exchanging him with the Iranians did we then give them the information on how to enter said back door.
I hope we really got someone good back in that prisoner swap. Otherwise its another Bergdhal case.
The software stolen is clearly ITAR restricted, so its a national security issue. But one has to wonder what the pardoned Iranian did to get arrested and held by the United States. The two men being sought by the FBI, may in fact be in Ira; they may have done the Hack over the internet and never entered the United States. That being said, did the third person in this story, the man actually held by the Justice Department, set up some kind of back door to this company for the other two men to exploit via the internet. And, if this is the case, by exchanging him with the Iranians did we then give them the information on how to enter said back door.
I hope we really got someone good back in that prisoner swap. Otherwise its another Bergdhal case.
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