[klt0825]

"Snowden's hacking prowess"

So we're back to this. First the "Snowden had a Hacker Certification" nonsense (ignoring that CEHs are required by DoD for OPS jobs and aren't exactly high-quality to begin with) and now deleting log files equaling "hacking". I guess it is easier to make him seem like some super skilled hacker than admit that oversight and access controls were probably non existent.

Selfishly, I really don't even care about Snowden at this point but I do fear that the trend developing is to paint him as a "Hacker" putting security researchers as the next major "threat".

[anaphor]

Completely agree. This is extremely basic stuff you should be doing on supposedly secure systems. It should be difficult to disable logging, and logs obviously shouldn't be stored on the same machine with write access to anyone who might be doing something nefarious. This paints the NSA in an extremely bad light from a security perspective and contradicts all of the bogus claims of impenetrable security by politicians.