[InclinedPlane]

There's no such thing as "cheating" when it comes to subverting security measures. If you have gained access to something that is supposed to be secure then you've compromised its security measures. It doesn't matter if you bribed someone, found the password in the trash, duplicated a key via a cell phone picture from across the street, or got conference call info from a compromised email account. In the end the result is the same. The weakest link in a chain determines its strength.

You better believe that this is how spycraft works with the big boys too. You attack security measures at the weakest point, period. Doing it any other way is just making a hobby of it.