[OliverJones]

You'd think at least some of these inept cyberspooks would have read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Or Brian Krebs. Or Bruce Schneier.

Or even the news story of how their old boss(!) John Brennan had his AOL(!) email account(!) cracked(!) by a teenager(!) guessing his password(!). The teenager exfiltrated something sensitive, a job application I believe, and was prosecuted for it. Meantimes, the former Director of Central Intelligence gets to keep his reputation.

[blaser-waffle]

He did not keep his reputation, at least not among the people who care about that sort of thing.

Source: lived around DC when it happened, had contractor friends complaining out loud about it