Liar, Liar, and Pretexting

Liar, Liar, and Pretexting
Mark Rasch, 2006-09-19

Mark Rasch details the legality of pretexting by putting it in context with how it used, comparing it with legal forms of lying, and by looking at previous court cases involving pretexting in the United States. Hewlett Packard's use of pretexting also brings up potential charges of criminal fraud, violations of consumer protection laws, issues of deception, and the use of spyware. Together these issues make for a very interesting legal situation at HP.

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Update 2006-09-20
Mark D. Rasch

The New York Times today http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/technology/20hewlett.html?
ei=5094&en=9ad88b9b669142c2&hp=&ex=1158811200&adxnnl=1&partn
er=homepage&adxnnlx=1158751077-0gDnIt1xrEHRNHM9FEh8oA
reported that HP also considered plans to infiltrate newsrooms posing as cleaning crews or other e...

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Liar, Liar, and pretexting 2006-09-20
Mark D. Rasch

It gets stranger... according to CNET,

http://news.com.com/HP+targeted+reporters+before+they+publis
hed+-+page+2/2100-1014_3-6117497-2.html?tag=st.numan . . . an HP investigator posing as a tipster began e-mailing Kawamoto [the CNET reporter], starting with a Jan. 27 e-mail from a Hotmail acco...

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stolen laptop 2006-09-20
Mark D. Rasch

... it also appears that the investigators stole one of the Board member's laptop computers (a non-HP provided one, presumably)...

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Liar, Liar, and pretexting 2006-09-21
SNARE IT Security

I love it! Great article. But the sad truth is that those of us that do these investigations will continue to do so and until articles like this become public knowledge, staff will continue to be fired, and staff will continue to be prosecuted. The neat thing is that most people do not question the ...

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Liar, Liar, and pretexting 2006-09-25
Michael

Since I agree to some (most) of Marks points, I wouldn´t accept the argument in the Spyware section regarding that an IP address is not a business address. -> As IP-addresses are just a computerbased form of DNS-addresses, which are often clearly business addresses or even trademarks, this would imp...

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