FBI warns colleges of terror threat

[Eugene]

Source: Boston Globe

FBI warns colleges of terror threat

Asks more vigilance on theft of research

By Shelley Murphy and Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff
| June 12, 2007

Federal agents are warning leaders at some of the region's
top universities -- including MIT, Boston College, and the
University of Massachusetts -- to be on the lookout for
foreign spies or potential terrorists trying to steal their
research, the head of the FBI's Boston office said yesterday.

Agents plan to visit many more New England colleges in the
coming months and are offering to provide briefings about
what they call "espionage indicators" to faculty, students,
or security staff as part of a national outreach to college
campuses.

"What we're most concerned about are those things that
are not classified being developed by MIT, Worcester
Polytech, and other universities," said Warren T. Bamford,
special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office. He said
colleges are vulnerable to those looking to exploit that
information and use it against the United States.

The FBI's website says universities should consider the
possibility of foreign spies posing as international
students or visitors and terrorists studying advanced
technologies and scientific breakthroughs on campus, as
well as violent extremists and computer hackers.

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Also: FBI warns colleges to watch for spies - AP

[MADem]

1. Well, BC is tilting so far to the right lately that there won't BE any good research to steal

Those Republicans are by and large pretty damned stupid....it'll be the foreign students doing all the work, anyway.

And what's up with this shit about "foreign spies posing as international students?" I guess everyone's given up on finding Osama, so now, instead, let's get suspicious about poor little nerdy Raj and Chin, who'd rather work late in the lab than go to the fucking kegger!!!

If I saw this guy skulking around a campus, I'd sure be nervous:



The baaastid oughta get off his damned ass and find Whitey, fachrissake.

[BadgerKid]

2. Meh. Man exploits man.

...be it foreign countries, terra-ist groups, or US-based companies doing R&D at the university.

Nothing new here. :shrug: