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He was a system admin and he stole credentials to get more than he personally was supposed to have access to. He then took a web crawler and scrapped everything he could from the databases he got access to. He had made a conscious decision to take that job to get everything he could he get his grubby fingers on and he took it all.

sounds like a complete failure of the bureaucracy and very program itself, from the bottom (Vetting) to the top (security, access, authority, oversight, management, etc)

if you want your highly suspect program, you're going to get these issues

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Posted by Decatur

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Posted on 3/23/14 at 10:57 pm to SlowFlowPro

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sounds like a complete failure of the bureaucracy and very program itself, from the bottom (Vetting) to the top (security, access, authority, oversight, management, etc)

I don't disagree really but that in no way offers any excuse to Snowden's actions. The Hawaii station was the last station that hadn't had the software installed that would have detected his activity. (things that make you go hmm) But when it comes to the insider threat, no amount of precautions can stop someone who is very determined.

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Posted by OleWar

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Posted on 3/23/14 at 11:02 pm to SlowFlowPro

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sounds like a complete failure of the bureaucracy and very program itself, from the bottom (Vetting) to the top (security, access, authority, oversight, management, etc)

EXACTLY! And not a single senior leader was relieved for this shite show. And has any of the CEOs of these contracting companies loss a bit of profit or been banned from doing anymore work.

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