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posted by martyb on Thursday November 14 2019, @03:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the caught-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place dept.

The case has become a cause célèbre that has galvanized a variety of different interests. For Coalfire and professional pentesters around the world, the charges are an affront that threatens their ability to carry out what has long been considered a key practice in ensuring clients’ systems are truly secure.

[...] “This does affect my job directly,” said a penetration tester who asked to be identified only by his handle @Tinker. “This affects physical pentesting in general and it really affects government pentesting when the state government can’t provide protection and you can’t trust the state government to stand behind its own laws.”

[...] No one has more stake in the controversy than Wynn and De Mercurio, who risk being convicted of criminal charges that among other things could jeopardize government clearances and future job prospects. Coalfire CEO Tom McAndrew said in a statement last month that Leonard “failed to exercise commonsense and good judgement and turned this engagement into a political battle between the State and the County.” McAndrew also noted that Coalfire conducted an engagement for Iowa’s SCA in 2015 without incident.

[...] The employees, McAndrew said, intentionally tripped the alarm and then proceeded to the third floor to test the response. Crouching on floors or otherwise trying to be covert is standard practice after alarms are tripped to further test authorities’ response and see what surveillance cameras can detect.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/how-a-turf-war-and-a-botched-contract-landed-2-pentesters-in-iowa-jail/

Previously:
Coalfire Pen-Testers Charged With Trespass Instead of Burglary


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @12:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @12:08PM (#920295)

    The reason the govt pulls stunts like this is b/c there are NO CONSEQUENCES for them.
    They are a bully who knows he will get away with picking on the small kid.
    Absent any consequences, expect crap like this to happen again and again.

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