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06/13/2003 CAH:cah s4{_————=sdcontacted1____—_—_] Senate Legal Counsel, 642 Senate Hart Building, Washington, DC 20510 regarding the letter sent to their office on 5/13/2003 tequesting information of the unauthorized intrusion of ADRIAN LAMO into senate. gov, stated that their technical people told her that b6 -1,6 b7c -1,6 b7E -1 derstood this concept and stated that I would have to speak to the technical people about this further. [further stated that her technical people did not like the term unauthorized intrusion used in the letter I sent to them. I explained tol __] that in the article the Director of Technology, TRACY WILLIAMS stated that their proxy servers were misconfigured allowing access to individuals who were not authorized to use them. WILLIAMS stated the servers were taken off- line once this was discovered. I explained tol___]that that is what is meant by unauthorized intrusion. CL went on to explain that the hack of LAMO or anyone else into senate.gov is not important due to the fact that the computers do not hold pertinent information. I asked Ht it was the policy of www.senate. gov to allow hackers or anyone to gain full access to their proxy servers and web servers to use them, as they deem appropriate. She stated she was not sure if this was their policy and I would need to speak to the technical people about the policy. (Peveined tha rd thatthe 6-6 technical people knew that it was an open proxy server that could be accessed by anyone and they b7C —6 were working on this problem. I asked her if they knew about the problem why were they not pulled b7E —1 off-line prior to the disclosure by LAMO. [ ptated I would need to speak to the technical people regarding this matter. CL |statea that she believed the technical people only spoke with the reporter and that no contact was made with LAMO directly. [stated that she would make arrangements to have the technical people involved in this matter call me, when she had time. FBI(19-cv-1495)-181 a see ee