Snowden wouldn’t even have to have swapped the hard drives.
I have seen a so called secure laptop that had no USB ports but did have a VGA port to plug up a larger monitor. All he really needed to do was to be able to plug the USB port less laptop up to a larger monitor. The information could then be siphoned off as video capture. Not as clean in some ways but if the laptop was able to be plugged into a larger monitor through a video port it could be done. The soft ware for doing this is readily available and widely used to convert personal DVD’s to non-disk copies. How hard would it be to get split cable?
Good point, the problem is the screen ports would have a very slow transfer rate. He took almost a terabyte.
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