The police chief didn't reveal Jamiez's real name, but said that he is 22 years old and works as a security analyst for a company in Brazil. Inferno.br has allegedly hacked sites belonging to NASA, NATO as well as a number of other local government sites. The hunt is on to determine how a pirated version of a forthcoming Microsoft Corp. operating system found its way onto the Internet earlier this week. Originally, the company said it could not locate the software on the Web. The Redmond, Wash. based software firm is still investigating the apparent theft of the software, she said.
Critics say it's unworkable because email can be falsified or forged so easily.
And unlike with human delivery, it can be nearly impossible to verify that an email subpoena was served successfully. The laptop computer was snatched while an employee of Britain's domestic security service, MI5, was buying a ticket at London's Paddington train station. The information contained in the laptop was well protected and we believe it to be secure. We are not prepared to discuss the nature of the material. The information on the computer was understood to be heavily encrypted and was related to the situation in Northern Ireland but did not refer to the state of the peace process or any guerrilla threat.