Prosecutor's Management Information System
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The Prosecutor's Management Information System, or PROMIS, is a database system developed by American IT company Inslaw. The software was mired in controversy, because the owner of Inslaw, Bill Hamilton, alleged that the United States Department of Justice stole the system without paying him. However, Hamilton had developed the software while working for the Justice Dept.
There were also claims that the software was bugged and had been sold to foreign intelligence agencies. These claims were started by Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Iranian-Jewish arms dealer, who alleged that the U.S. had built a "back door" into the software to allow it to spy on its friends and enemies alike.
External links
- Inslaw/PROMIS (http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/collections/conspiracies/inslaw.htm)
- The Inslaw Affair (http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/inslaw.html)
- "The PROMIS software, used by police, is bugged" (http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/bugs.html)