[133385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mastercard problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hallgren)
Wed Dec 8 18:04:24 2010
From: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <231198.95738.qm@web59603.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:04:12 +0100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 14:23 -0800, andrew.wallace a écrit :
> "MasterCard works closely with the
> U.S. Secret Service, the FBI, the Postal Inspection Service, Interpol,
> Europol and counterpart organizations throughout the world to facilitate investigation and prosecution."
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> http://www.mastercard.com/us/merchant/security/collaborating_experts.html
Sure, and fortunately,... but that's about fraud prevention...
mh
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> Andrew
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From:James Downs <egon@egon.cc>
> To:andrew.wallace <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
> Cc:Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>; "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent:Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 21:30:20
> Subject:Re: Mastercard problems
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> On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:30 PM, andrew.wallace wrote:
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> > I would say the attack falls under the jurisdiction of the US secret service since this is an attack on the financial system.
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> > "Today the agency's primary investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States." --- secretservice.gov
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> Yikes.. you consider a private company's business to be the financial and payment system of the United States?
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> -j
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