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Hall has an extremely interesting story to tell, one involving theft of several hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. Intellectual property in this one case alone. The author was on the front lines of the takedown of a notorious software pirate, whose website may have materially weakened national security by the complexity of the advanced programming, machining, engineering, and electronic guidance systems that were stolen. Unfortunately, the tale is diluted somewhat in the telling, by Hall's lengthy digressions both narrative and personal that interrupt the story at every turn. This is one seriously weird book. I'm not disputing anything the author says, and I believe he's being completely honest, it's just that -ideally -something like this should have been turned immediately over to the CIA/DIA/NSA/Secret Service???????

A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99. Book Details. Paperback; June 2017. The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, David. Hall is a partner in the Litigation Department. CNN will report on CRACK 99, a book by Wiggin and Dana Partner, David Hall, on September 2:.

Nothing appears to ever work correctly in the Wall Street-owned and operated US government? But I most definitely appreciate the author's honesty and forthrightness; he's the working federal prosecutor type (AUSA, or assistant US attorney, the guys and gals who actually do stuff).

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A jaunty yet disquieting tale of the first American prosecution of a Chinese software pirate. Hall, a federal prosecutor and Naval Reserve intelligence officer, was nearing retirement in 2010 when Homeland Security investigators directed him to CRACK99.com, a website, 'amateurish and even juvenile in its presentation,' offering high-end aerospace and engineering software with clear military applications for pennies on the dollar. Intrigued, he made contact with webmaster Xiang Li and began making purchases in an escalating undercover investigation. Hall plays Xiang Li's evasive, linguistically challenged communications for laughs ('This is the perfect sure! Trust from our services') while emphasizing the serious national security implications of such piracy. He notes that unenforceable indictments had been issued against Chinese army officers for similar activities. 'If we failed,” he writes, “investigating CRACK99 would also go down as a fool's errand, and we would be the fools.” Although Hall was unable to link Xiang Li to the Chinese government, search warrants for CRACK99's email revealed that the gaudy website was selling 'hundreds of different software programsoriginally produced in the United States' to customers in locales including Syria and China itself.

The case followed several surreal twists, culminating in Xiang Li's apprehension on Saipan, an American protectorate; Xiang Li was ultimately sentenced to 12 years, and some American customers were prosecuted as well. Hall takes a prosecutor’s perspective, noting, “ironically, U.S. Technology enables the Chinese to steal U.S.

Crack 99 Dave Hall

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Technology with relative easeusing the Internet as an efficient method of theft.” The author writes in the familiar voice of a blustery, world-weary top cop; his observations as the case unfolds are often humorous but can also be repetitive. While many, including Xiang Li himself, portrayed such software piracy as a harmless libertarian impulse, Hall believes he's sounding the alarm about a metastasizing military threat: 'The use to which China will put this stolen American technology is anyone's guess.' A quirky tale of international pursuit through a legal labyrinth with unsettling implications regarding proliferation of ominous technologies.