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Snowden Mined NSA on the Cheap

TOO EASY

Used inexpensive, accessible software.

Apparently, it's really easy and not at all costly to steal America's national security secrets. Intelligent officials investigating how Edward Snowden managed to access and leak National Security Agency information discovered he used cheap and widely accessible “web crawlers” software in a “quite automated” and unsophisticated process. It is especially disturbing, considering it occurred nearly three years after the Wikileaks scandal. Snowden accessed approximately 1.7 million files while going relatively unnoticed by the NSA.

Read it at New York Times

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