Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets 743
schnell writes "As government investigators continue to try to figure out just how much data whistleblower Edward Snowden had access to, MSNBC is reporting that Snowden used his sysadmin privileges to assume the user profiles of top NSA officials in order to gain access to the most sensitive files. His sysadmin privileges also enabled him to do something other NSA users can't — download classified files from NSAnet onto a thumb drive. 'Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,' said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. 'This is why you don't hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.'"
Brilliant? (Score:5, Funny)
oblig Avengers... (Score:5, Funny)
The only thing that came to mind with the suggestion that they not hire brilliant people:
"An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome."
- Tony Stark
Re:Brilliant? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes... surely SOMEONE at the NSA knows about SELinux!
Re:Amended quote (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Brilliant? (Score:5, Funny)
Umm, ok, now you have to be brilliant to "sudo su ".
Sucker. Now you'll never get hired by the NSA.
Re:Brilliant? (Score:4, Funny)
No, it was someone brilliant who impersonated as the NSA to publish SELinux.
Re:Brilliant? (Score:5, Funny)
There was one guy, but he left.
Re:Brilliant? (Score:4, Funny)
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man directs traffic.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man gets beaten up by the mob who thinks he talks funy and pretends "see" things that are farther that you can touch so is obviously a dangerous mad man.
Re:Snowden was never a "Whistleblower" (Score:3, Funny)
...if you want to disagree ...you have to show evidence
I don 't know who the fuck you think you are, but NONE OF US need your permission to disagree in any way we see fit.
Go fuck yourself, you arrogant narcissistic prick.
Excuse me, sir. Can I please see your disagreeing permit?
Re:Amended quote (Score:5, Funny)
Investigators are baffled at the sophistication of the attack, being that PRISM grew out of ECHELON & Carnivore which was ported from old Unix systems to run on the more secure Microsoft OS platform. Compromise was thought highly unlikely especially since many employees are on record citing the feats "nearly impossible to remotely administer."
Experts say Snowden used the an obscure "Shell Command", frequently associated with copyright pirates, to display every last file he stole: "De Aye Yar!"
Worse still, reports confirm that C.P. was his favorite, and was integral to his hacking scheme! Won't someone think of the children?!