- You remember where I came from?

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Security Tales: The Digital Footprint
Vladimir Bezmaly | 10.12.2021
- Michael, what did you want?

- Mr. Director, it seems we have a problem that will require the intervention of law enforcement agencies.

- What's happened?

— This concerns our young employee, Geronimo D. He came to us a year ago.

- And what happened to him?

— Until recently, everything was great. His boss couldn’t praise him enough, considered him the most promising young scientist in our research sector. I became interested in him after a conversation at our New Year’s corporate party. It turned out that we both graduated from the same faculty of our Chemical Technology University. Moreover, we studied in the same department. But at the same time, he knows practically nothing about student life at our faculty. No nicknames of teachers, no name of the favorite faculty bar. This surprised me very much. I contacted, of course, the university security service. It turned out that such a china mobile database was indeed registered. But! Not a single digital work of his remained at the faculty. Then I remembered that our faculty issued scholarships through a student bank. This is a third-party organization that has no relation to the university. I requested from there all the logs of money movement on his card for the period of study. And here I was lucky. It turned out that a bank card had never been issued to such a student. Moreover, such a person has never passed the unified final exam at school!!! That is, he did not finish school in our country.

- And what did you do?


- Of course I remember. From the counterintelligence department.

- Well, there you go. There are no former ones in our department, you understand. I contacted my former department. As you know, after another case related to foreign workers, we began collecting fingerprints of everyone crossing the border. I asked them to check our young scientist.

- And what?

— It turned out that eight years ago he crossed the border under the name of George M. And a month later George M. left our country.

- Fun... Thanks for being vigilant!

- Thank you! What are we going to do?