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NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison

posted by takyon on Friday August 24 2018, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the reality-checkmate dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

NSA leaker who mailed doc outlining Russian hacking gets 5 years in prison

Reality Winner, the intelligence contractor who leaked to The Intercept and was quickly caught in June 2017 thanks to microdot printing, was sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday. She had pleaded guilty on June 21 to a single count of unlawful retention and transmission of national defense information.

The information that Winner provided to The Intercept resulted in this June 5, 2017 news story: "Top-Secret NSA Report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election."

Previously: Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document
Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript
Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 24 2018, @07:14AM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday August 24 2018, @07:14AM (#725676) Homepage Journal

    There's not a whole lot to do in the slammer. Sometimes someone in my pod got the Columbian. He would share it so I could read every word of every pad even the ads.

    Except for the Sports section. I remain flummoxed that anyone likes to read about Sport.

    You'll need her inmate number to your gift mail subscription gets to her. Right now she'd have a jail's inmate number I expect she'll get the prison's inmate number when she arrives.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 24 2018, @07:55AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday August 24 2018, @07:55AM (#725688) Journal

    Inmates have their mail screened and withheld for arbitrary reasons. It might be less bad for female/federal prisoners though.

    Don't send her Wired magazine. It has hackers on steroids.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @01:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @01:15PM (#725778)

    I guess an Intercept subscription would be in poor taste? :D

  • (Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday August 24 2018, @11:45PM

    by Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) on Friday August 24 2018, @11:45PM (#726079)

    You can look up the inmate number at https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ [bop.gov] with a name search and get the address of her prison once she's assigned to one.