A former TSA analyst has been indicted for computer crimes after being allegedly caught tampering with various terrorist watchlists (his work duties involved keeping these databases up to date). He’d been given notice that he was being fired before the incident. The article doesn’t explain what he’s suspected of doing, though the possibilities are interesting: adding enemies to watchlists? Taking people off of watchlists?
Douglas James Duchak, 46, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday with two counts of damaging protected computers. According to a federal indictment, Duchak tried to compromise computers at the TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center (CSOC) on Oct. 22, 2009, seven days after he’d being given two weeks notice that he was being dismissed. He was also charged with tampering with a TSA server that contained data from the U.S. Marshal’s Service Warrant Information Network.
He “knowingly transmitted code into the CSOC server that contained the Terrorist Screening Database, and thereby attempted intentionally to cause damage to the CSOC computer and database,” prosecutors said Wednesday in a press release.
Former TSA analyst charged with computer tampering
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