One Friday afternoon, the information technology director of a major telecommunications provider (we’ll call him Jim) rushed up to the office of the company’s president (whom we’ll call Tom). Jim was carrying a corporate notebook computer that had previously been used by an employee who had just been terminated. Jim quickly related to Tom that while reconfiguring the computer—standard procedure before reissuing it to another employee—the IT staff had found what appeared to be child pornography on it.
Text-only version from February digital edition. How Interpol helps to solve crimes ranging from cyberattacks to child exploitation and how the private sector gets involved.
By Raymond W. Holcomb; Reviewed by Colonel (retired) Britt Mallow
Raymond Holcomb spent 23 years in the FBI, spanning the era of J. Edgar Hoover through 9-11 and its aftermath. He played a key role in the transformation of the organization’s primary focus from crime-fighting to national security.
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