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On Monday, The Washington Post reported one of the most stunning breaches of security ever. A former NSA contractor, the paper said, stole more than 50 terabytes of highly sensitive data. According to one source, that includes more than 75 percent of the hacking tools belonging to the Tailored Access Operations. TAO is an elite hacking unit that develops and deploys some of the world's most sophisticated software exploits.
Attorneys representing Harold T. Martin III have previously portrayed the former NSA contractor as a patriot who took NSA materials home so that he could become better at his job. Meanwhile, investigators who have combed through his home in Glen Burnie, Maryland, remain concerned that he passed the weaponized hacking tools to enemies. The theft came to light during the investigation of a series of NSA-developed exploits that were mysteriously published online by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers.
[...] An unnamed US official told the paper that Martin allegedly hoarded more than 75 percent of the TAO's library of hacking tools. It's hard to envision a scenario under which a theft of that much classified material by a single individual would be possible.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:21AM
Anyone else have the gut feeling that this guy is only being used as a scapegoat/excuse, or nothing but a plain diversion, or some kind of honey trap?
Poor guy if he's telling the truth (being stupid is really easy, but that said this guy was hoarding stupid), or maybe a very lucky guy if he's a scapegoat with a deal where his maximum security isolation takes place on some lovely tropical island, babes, drink, and all expenses included :3
If that wasn't enough this is from WaPo/BezoPress which is funded by the CIA (adds a whole new layer with the potential NSA CIA rivalry/war), the dead tree equivalent of CNN which means it's not to be trusted, and it's reporting about the NSA, which specializes in spying and deception by technical means and shouldn't really have been trusted even before Snowden revealed that they're incredibly untrustworthy and which is one of many (all?) organizations that is not to be trusted either even if they say the sky is blue and you've checked and the sky where you are actually happens to be blue right when they said it (and it's never the same color everywhere at the same time...).
By this point I get the feeling as if I had accidentally and unobtrusively without noticing read a +2 Blessed Spellbook of Levitation since it all feels so incredibly airy and soft and there's so little "there" actually there anywhere :)
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