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(12,482 posts)UK government says Greenwald partner practiced terrible security
In a written statement to a British court Friday, Oliver Robbins, deputy national security adviser in the Cabinet Office, said that the the UK government had managed to access some of the documents Miranda had been carrying in encrypted form.
While most of the files remained encrypted, it was possible to access a portion of files on the hard drive because a piece of paper containing basic instructions for accessing some of the data that included a password for decrypting one of the files was among Mirandas things.
Robbins said assessments by GCHQ had shown that the number of documents on the hard drive seized from Miranda was consistent with the number that Snowden would have had access to when working at the NSA and that he indiscriminately appropriated material in bulk, and that at least some of that was being couriered by Miranda.
Robbins believes the data may have already been obtained by one or more of the countries through which Snowden has passed since he fled the US, including China and Russia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/30/uk-government-says-greenwald-partner-practiced-terrible-security/