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Wasn't Snowden's trick to use an inkjet printer to make blank CDRs look like music CDs, bring to work and burn data to them, and then take them home again?

chatmasta 10y ago
If that's true, it's pretty unbelievable security would allow someone to walk out of an NSA building with a CD, just because the label had an album cover on it.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  Are you going to make people get naked and cavity search them? Physically smuggling data seems not that hard in this day and age. MicroSD is so dense, can fit one in my nose.
  - dvtv75 10y ago
    Is there a medical file somewhere in the history of this amusing piece of knowledge? Inquiring minds want to know.
    - brianwawok 10y ago
      No but I will microSD up my nose and take a picture for $10.
metamet 10y ago
> All he needed, said multiple intelligence community sources, was a few thumb drives and the willingness to exploit a gaping hole in an antiquated security system to rummage at will through the NSA’s servers and take 20,000 documents without leaving a trace. > Finally, Snowden’s physical location worked to his advantage. In a contractor’s office 5,000 miles and six time zones from headquarters, he was free from prying eyes. Much of his workday occurred after the masses at Ft. Meade had already gone home for dinner. Had he been in Maryland, someone who couldn’t audit his activities electronically still might have noticed his use of thumb drives. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/how-snowden-did-it-f8C11003160 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/how-snowden-did-it-f8C1100...
deftnerd 10y ago
I believe you're thinking of Chelsea Manning (Formerly Bradley Manning). If I remember correctly, she took a blank CDRW printed to look like a Lady Gaga album into the secure area to burn files. Even put on headphones to bop her head and mime listening to the music
- semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  Ah, thanks for the correction.

chatmasta 10y ago

If that's true, it's pretty unbelievable security would allow someone to walk out of an NSA building with a CD, just because the label had an album cover on it.

brianwawok 10y ago
Are you going to make people get naked and cavity search them? Physically smuggling data seems not that hard in this day and age. MicroSD is so dense, can fit one in my nose.
- dvtv75 10y ago
  Is there a medical file somewhere in the history of this amusing piece of knowledge? Inquiring minds want to know.
  - brianwawok 10y ago
    No but I will microSD up my nose and take a picture for $10.

metamet 10y ago

> All he needed, said multiple intelligence community sources, was a few thumb drives and the willingness to exploit a gaping hole in an antiquated security system to rummage at will through the NSA’s servers and take 20,000 documents without leaving a trace. > Finally, Snowden’s physical location worked to his advantage. In a contractor’s office 5,000 miles and six time zones from headquarters, he was free from prying eyes. Much of his workday occurred after the masses at Ft. Meade had already gone home for dinner. Had he been in Maryland, someone who couldn’t audit his activities electronically still might have noticed his use of thumb drives. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/how-snowden-did-it-f8C11003160 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/how-snowden-did-it-f8C1100...

deftnerd 10y ago

I believe you're thinking of Chelsea Manning (Formerly Bradley Manning). If I remember correctly, she took a blank CDRW printed to look like a Lady Gaga album into the secure area to burn files. Even put on headphones to bop her head and mime listening to the music

semi-extrinsic 10y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction.