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by cavilling_elite 4749 days ago
The "second saddest part" makes me realize why all of the government agencies get C's or less in the NIST tests for securing systems. When the NSA can't even employ their own in-house sysadmins, there is no real hope for defense against political espionage.

If Snowden was the first to leak information, who was the first to sell it? The way Snowden describes the access seems like a joke.
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scarmig 4749 days ago
One has to also wonder: how many have sold it before Snowden leaked it? I have a hard time guessing the ratio of people willing to silently sell information versus loud do-gooders, but I have a strong suspicion it is greater than one. And of course one person can sell multiple times...
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hobs 4749 days ago
GREAT POINT. If someone could leak this much information as a sysadmin and do it effectively, how could it have not been sold? The value of such information would be astronomical to other spy agencies who would be opposed to us.
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