[IP] DOD IPv6 director arrested for possession of child porn

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <amicus@well.com>
Date: April 7, 2006 1:06:23 PM EDT
To: "johnmac's living room" <johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com>, Dave  
<dave@farber.net>
Subject: DOD IPv6 director arrested for possession of child porn

This is not going to bode well for the IPv4->IPv6 transition, but  
what the heck is up with high-level DC bureaucrats and the kid pr0n??

http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40341-1.html

DOD IPv6 director arrested for possession of child porn

04/06/06 -- 03:54 PM
By Patience Wait,

A high-ranking Defense Department IT official has been arrested and  
indicted on child pornography charges.

Charles Lynch, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s  
Internet Protocol version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8  
and indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of  
Virginia the next day on one count of possessing child pornography.

According to a statement by the DOD Inspector General’s Office, court  
documents allege that Lynch had been operating a peer-to-peer file- 
sharing program on a computer in his office at DISA. Agents  
confiscated several computers and more than 1,000 CDs from Lynch’s  
office. Agents found child pornography in computer file folders, the  
IG’s statement said.

Lynch, 44, is on leave without pay from DISA. If convicted, he faces  
up to 10 years in prison.

The investigation is being conducted by the Defense Criminal  
Investigative Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the  
DISA OIG. Officials with those agencies, as well as the U.S.  
Attorney’s Office, declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

In apparently unrelated cases, a Homeland Security Department  
official was arrested earlier this week for soliciting sex over the  
Internet with a minor. And last week, federal agents seized computer  
equipment from the desk of a NASA official March 29, based on  
information developed during a U.S. Postal Inspection Service  
undercover investigation of Internet trafficking in child pornography.

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