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Wednesday, September 26, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2814603,00.html Know computers? Uncle Sam wants you to be a detective! By Robert Vamosi, AnchorDesk A recent article in the Washington Post titled "FBI Agents Ill-Equipped to Prevent Terror Attacks" highlights the FBI's current inability to analyze computer data leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11. Aside from the stunning lack of staff able to translate e-mails written in Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto, comes these revelations: "More than 13,000 FBI computers are four to eight years old, meaning they cannot run today's basic software or allow agents to move to different functions with a mouse."... But piecing together what happened on computers around the world leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks requires specific knowledge, and there is an acute need right now for computer forensics experts--a need even the IT community is just beginning to recognize....
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