I mean, there's quite a few ways to communicate between air gapped systems. The biggest difficulty is getting your code running on the internal air gapped syste

I mean, there's quite a few ways to communicate between air gapped systems. The biggest difficulty is getting your code running on the internal air gapped system, so it can talk back to the first system. And transmission methods are typically pretty slow. A recent public example, but there's lots of other techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8CNxYe5dk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8CNxYe5dk Paying lots of money to access data at rest would really be more under the CIA, to be honest. The CIA is, theoretically, only supposed to go after data at rest, and leave all the sigint to the NSA.