Chris Soghoian has another interesting piece on his CNET blog.
Wow, I’m certainly glad that I’ve not had the displeasure of police interrogation. But, to think of one in some countries around the world makes the blood run cold. One such example is apparently, Turkey.
From CNET:
The 2005 theft of tens of million credit card numbers from an unsecured wireless network run by TJ Maxx stores has lead to over 150 million dollars in damages for the company. The two gentlemen behind the heist sold the pilfered credit card information to others online. Eventually, the stolen cards reached Maksym Yastremskiy, a Ukrainian citizen, and, according to media reports, a “major figure in the international sale of stolen credit card information.”
Mr Yastremskiy was later arrested in 2007, while on vacation in Turkey. The US government has formally requested that Yastremskiy be extradited, and has charged him with a number of crimes including aggravated identity theft.
Now, comments alleged to have been made by Howard Cox, a US Department of Justice official, shed some light on the possible means in which the Turkish police extracted the password for his encryption software.
Cox quipped about leaving a stubborn suspect alone with Turkish police for a week as a way to get them to voluntarily reveal their password
Volun…damn. OK, the tongue and cheek imagery of a black and white film gives way to this image.
Guilty or not, this is not the right way to do things.