re: #11 erik_t

“System administrator”, colloquially, can mean a fair number of things. It’s not clear to me he was root on a gigantic NSA data center, or something.

Yeah, it’s still possible he did something actually penetrative to get this. But still, there will be some guy who, if the data simply exists, is going to be able to access it because he’s the network dude. Encryption can kind of solve this, but only kind of.

Snowden may not have been root, but someone is.