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22/06/93
- An extreme risk of poor computer security
A couple of weeks ago, Michelle and Lisa Taylor were acquitted
(on appeal) of the murder of Alison Shaughnessy.
This judgment freed them from serving life imprisonment. An
automatic teller machine transaction (since believed to have
been a fraud or a processing error) placed the sisters near
the scene of this murder.
The police did the rest the appeal court found that they had
framed the sisters, and had deliberately suppressed a witness
statement which cleared them (this witness had stated that
one of the two suspects seen leaving the scene of the crime
was black, while the Taylors are white).
Thus Michelle and Lisa ended up being convicted of murder
in the lower court. During the appeal, their counsel did not
raise the issue of the bogus ATM transaction which caused
the trouble, as he was already accusing the police of lying
about the evidence and did not want to complicate matters
by accusing the banking industry of lying too.
Nonetheless the story is now out, and it shows that the risk
of poor computer security at your bank is not just a financial
one. |
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