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"You have to wonder how many are not getting caught if they can manage these two faults." I wonder the same about leaks like the Snowden leaks. If Snowden coul
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"You have to wonder how many are not getting caught if they can manage these two faults."
I wonder the same about leaks like the Snowden leaks. If Snowden could do this how many other people get access to the same data and use it for their own purposes be it financial, political or both ? My guess is a lot.
- sametmax 8y agoEspacially since he was a low rank soldier with a sense of moral. Now take a highly ranked powerful machiavellian person, and the scenario suddenly seems very likely.
- ilyanep 8y agoIt's happened before: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen There may very well be people who are getting away with doing it now, but the leaked data eventually winds up being used which is how you get caught.
- update 8y agoReally interesting articles. 2 things that stood out > Hanssen [...] is serving his sentence at the ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day. The guy made a deal to avoid the death penalty, but from what I've read about solitary confinement this can't be much better. and this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames >U.S. mole hunters investigated 90 employees at WTC for almost a year and came up with ten suspects, although the lead investigator noted that "there are so many problem personalities that no one stands out"