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In reply to the discussion: State Department Brief Today on Snowden. Unbelievable [View all]Catherina
(35,568 posts)163. You need to catch up instead of ROFLing like a blue link wonder
WTF are you ROFLing about? It doesn't do you any favors.
It was clear from the beginning this guys was a hacker. One of the things that bothered him so much was that when they'd hack into hospitals, critical systems would crash if they made a mistake.
For anyone not too bright to catch that part, or catch it from his posts on Ars Technica, the NYT spelled it out
Résumé Shows Snowden Honed Hacking Skills
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and SCOTT SHANE
Published: July 4, 2013
In 2010, while working for a National Security Agency contractor, Edward J. Snowden learned to be a hacker.
He took a course that trains security professionals to think like hackers and understand their techniques, all with the intent of turning out certified ethical hackers who can better defend their employers networks.
But the certification, listed on a résumé that Mr. Snowden later prepared, would also have given him some of the skills he needed to rummage undetected through N.S.A. computer systems and gather the highly classified surveillance documents that he leaked last month, security experts say.
Mr. Snowdens résumé, which has not been made public and was described by people who have seen it, provides a new picture of how his skills and responsibilities expanded while he worked as an intelligence contractor. Although federal officials offered only a vague description of him as a systems administrator, the résumé suggests that he had transformed himself into the kind of cybersecurity expert the N.S.A. is desperate to recruit, making his decision to release the documents even more embarrassing to the agency.
If hes looking inside U.S. government networks for foreign intrusions, he might have very broad access, said James A. Lewis, a computer security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The hacker got into the storeroom.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/us/resume-shows-snowden-honed-hacking-skills.html
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and SCOTT SHANE
Published: July 4, 2013
In 2010, while working for a National Security Agency contractor, Edward J. Snowden learned to be a hacker.
He took a course that trains security professionals to think like hackers and understand their techniques, all with the intent of turning out certified ethical hackers who can better defend their employers networks.
But the certification, listed on a résumé that Mr. Snowden later prepared, would also have given him some of the skills he needed to rummage undetected through N.S.A. computer systems and gather the highly classified surveillance documents that he leaked last month, security experts say.
Mr. Snowdens résumé, which has not been made public and was described by people who have seen it, provides a new picture of how his skills and responsibilities expanded while he worked as an intelligence contractor. Although federal officials offered only a vague description of him as a systems administrator, the résumé suggests that he had transformed himself into the kind of cybersecurity expert the N.S.A. is desperate to recruit, making his decision to release the documents even more embarrassing to the agency.
If hes looking inside U.S. government networks for foreign intrusions, he might have very broad access, said James A. Lewis, a computer security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The hacker got into the storeroom.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/us/resume-shows-snowden-honed-hacking-skills.html
Posts like your last one just give me
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It depends on whether or not you are interested in facts. I read all of it and was shocked at
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#171
My first impression - that the male reporter cut the female spokesperson off before she could
karynnj
Jul 2013
#62
It's worth it to read the disgraceful equivocations by a govt. spokesperson in their
HardTimes99
Jul 2013
#63
I beg your pardon.My wife and I watched Kerry on TV in Colorado Springs be asked the question
HardTimes99
Jul 2013
#112
to Karyn[formerlyNJ-but now]VT, re: "limits to free speech" and the Fire/crowded theater meme...
RememberTheNinth
Aug 2013
#181
Read it whenevr you have timebut don't have any liguids near your keyboard when you do
Catherina
Jul 2013
#74
This OP is basically a giant copy-paste with some bold font here and there?
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#4
Also, from the transcript these questioners...sound like complete a-holes
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#5
Actually at least Matt is doing an awful job if the goal was to get the State Department
karynnj
Jul 2013
#66
No, they don't. They are members of the press, and if Snowden doesn't have the right to free
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#22
Not stupid at all in my view. I thought it was for once a member of the press asking the right
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#25
The Obama administration doesn't want Snowden to have the right to free speech.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#24
Took a long time, but it looks like what Snowden said and revealed woke them up to the simple
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#26
We started a World Forum under Media, and we are going to try to catch some foreign views of
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#48
I have no problem with relentless questioning - but it is important to allow answers to the
karynnj
Jul 2013
#75
He cut her off because she was avoiding answering his questions by speaking in broad generalities
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#141
There is no honest answer to his questions other than, yes, we are depriving Edward Snowden
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#145
They covered Morales plane when they came back from the 4th of July long weekend
Catherina
Jul 2013
#68
Ms. Psaki needs to repeat CYA101 and read "Weasal Words and Their Uses" again.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#28
I read it and thanks for posting it. I say screw Kerry and the horse he rode in on.
byeya
Jul 2013
#35
It's totally cringeworthy. You almost want to help them because it's so bad n/t
Catherina
Jul 2013
#49
That's precisely why I didn't snip it. I tried but it took away the full effect
Catherina
Jul 2013
#53
It's pretty clear since HRW normally treats the US with deference and kid gloves
Catherina
Jul 2013
#73
They're not prepared for any of this type of questioning, are they? Stunning. K&R and bookmarked.
Jefferson23
Jul 2013
#71
embarrassing but perversely comforting to see the incompetence of the anti-Snowden PR
carolinayellowdog
Jul 2013
#94
May Mr. Snowden get to exercise his 6th Amendment rights very soon. nt
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#119
Too cool! I can't believe it's been tweeted 234 times and liked like that on FB. Thank you n/t
Catherina
Jul 2013
#158
Cool! Make some more room under the bus lol. I'm glad people are taking this seriously
Catherina
Jul 2013
#162