Posted on 06/14/2013 11:49:16 AM PDT by null and void
Hacking is a Myth ,it’s really the Thumb Drive
my thumb drive just takes me in circles
If you watch his interview you can see where he kept his thumb drive. In his mouth!
The fact that his PC didn’t lock down when he inserted a thumb drive under his ID flies in the face of the company line that he was a low level tech.
thumb drives are so five minutes ago...it’s 16GB SDHC cards and such (maybe 32 or 64 GB now)...
My first computer in the 80s, cost $7000~ IBM. It had a 10 or 20 MB hard drive (I forget)! Remember 5 1/4 inch floppies? The floppies at work I used were 8 inchers!
Isn't that a requirement for all Reddit users? I believe it's even in the terms of use.
This sounds like the Clintonian strategy of smearing the messenger.
What happens when the basement geek grows up?
I like how they have to demonize him, to convict.
Notice they don’t mention what deep secrets were on the pages he supposedly loaded on his thumb drive and absconded with?
He was an internet user! Hisss He had opinions! Hisss He was a legend in his own mind! Hisss He offered advise! Hisss
This guy really does sound bad Mildred. I sure hope they stop him!
Why he even thinks there are black and white issues, and rights should be observed. Hissss Hisss Hisss...
Frankly I’m shocked they even have USB ports on these computers. They could order them without.
Is this a top level security firm or not?
I’ve worked far less secure places that didn’t allow the use of them.
So now he only worked 4 weeks and was able to walk away with a treasure trove.
Kudos to NSA for collecting all of our private data in a system so insecure.
Fascinating, eh?
Didn’t some top Congress critters just a couple of days ago, after briefings with top intelligence officials, claim Snowden was lying about what he had and had taken?? Which is it, Super Snoop or Super Dupe?
That does not pass the smell test.
I know people who have worked in secure defense installations. The tower unit of their computer was encased in a chicken wire cage that prevents you from inserting any type of removable media.
Yep. What's amazing is I work on government computers and thumb-drives are verboten. If we plug one in, the network geeks know about it immediately. I wonder how lax the NSA is with its networked computers to allow this to occur. And some tell us we're supposed to trust and have trust in their abilities and motives. Someone should lose their job for allowing this to happen. All the same, I'm glad he was able to let us know what most of us already suspected - the Patriot Act part about being able to spy on those who were persons of interest and who were communicating with terrorist cells was not a secret; the secret seems to be that they were revving it up to include everything about all of us - that's why they are so pi$$ed about him "destroying National Security".
That’s what I would expect here too. Strange huh...
If I were CIA and wanted to bring certain information forward with implicating any one at the top or anyone who could be called to testify, I’d send a young agent away from his CIA position into the jungle of the agency that was to be exposed..... Just to give him cover ya know...
He may have taken Petraeus down but left an angry segment of the agency actively in place
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