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It's all secret or noforn. If he was working as an analyst, he'd likely be badged for it. It also depends on his particular job responsibilities. My guess is
by ismarc 16y ago
It's all secret or noforn. If he was working as an analyst, he'd likely be badged for it. It also depends on his particular job responsibilities. My guess is that he was cleared to access a document archive for his day-to-day operations and started grabbing random stuff when he figured out a way to transport the data. There's no rhyme or reason to what was leaked, it's looks like wholesale whatever could be retrieved so it was likely a fire-sale type data grabbing.
- krschultz 16y agoWhich really begs the question why they don't have some automatic monitoring on who starts accessing a hundred thousand documents not related to their day to day job.
- drpancake 16y agoAccording to The Guardian: "There have been suggestions that an alarm system to detect suspicious use of the network was suspended for US military personnel in Iraq after they complained it was inconvenient." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/siprnet-america-stores-secret-cables http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/siprnet-america-...
- gwern 16y agoIt would be rather inconvenient if one full-text search on the name of this old possible insurgent you captured suddenly disabled your computer and led to your arrest by MPs, I agree.
- ceejayoz 16y agoSurely such a system could differentiate between a search match and saving the entire document to a hard drive.