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It's funny to see how common the tools he uses are : Dell laptops, WinRAR, wget... You would think the army has some fancy tech, apparently not.

• tlrobinson 14y ago
  It's amazing how many high profile "hacking" cases are essentially (or literally) "used wget to download unsecured information". aaronsw and weev come to mind.
  • jonknee 14y ago
    This information was secured, he just had the ability to use computers on the secure network. People will always be an attack vector, though the military certainly could have implemented more automated alerts on unusual activity.
    • btilly 14y ago
      Based on his description, it was standard operating procedure to make multiple local copies of large amounts of data so that you'd have access to it when you needed it even if there were network problems later. In that case, his network activity may not have looked unusual.
• mpyne 14y ago
  Fancier than what we get in the Navy. :(