This is fascinating and the interleaving of statecraft and misdirection was also interesting. Snowden turned out to be led astray here by someone telling him a

This is fascinating and the interleaving of statecraft and misdirection was also interesting. Snowden turned out to be led astray here by someone telling him a rumor while it was as simple as ISIS capturing a network engineer who told them how to sabotage the network (not to mention various other sabotage or accidental problems like mining or explosions)