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NPR: Snowden May Have Stolen 1.7 Million NSA Documents

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Reality Based Steve12/17/2013 7:58:17 pm PST

re: #85 jonhendry

My understanding is that he was able edit logs, and he also was able to get his coworkers to give him their passwords, so he was able to log in as them and get files he couldn’t access under his own account. Apparently they just trusted him.

In other words, everything from security 101 was just blown to bits. I wonder how much of it was due to the fact that in RL security is supposed to KEEP things from happening, so people who know the systems come up with ways to bypass to make their life easy.

But giving passwords up???? I hope to hell that either those people were fired or at least given a career ending notation in their files. If there is any thing we have learned from Kevin Mitnick, you can’t patch stupid… Social engineering your way to infame and misfortune, ARGH!!!!

{Snip of major brain Fart}

RBS