Monday, March 10, 2014

NSA asleep at the switch, Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool

NSA, intelligence? Or just an oxymoron?

Officials say Mr. Snowden used “web crawler” software. Moreover, Mr. Snowden succeeded nearly three years after the WikiLeaks disclosures, in which military and State Department files, of far less sensitivity, were taken using similar techniques. (source infra)

Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A. - NYTimes.com: " . . . the N.S.A.’s mission includes protecting the nation’s most sensitive military and intelligence computer systems from cyberattacks, especially the sophisticated attacks that emanate from Russia and China. Mr. Snowden’s “insider attack,” by contrast, was hardly sophisticated and should have been easily detected, investigators found...."

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