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Some of the U.S. officials [...] told ABC News that the Hong Kong government was playing a double-game [...], which has raised fears that Chinese intelligence o
by danbruc 13y ago
Some of the U.S. officials [...] told ABC News that the Hong Kong government was playing a double-game [...], which has raised fears that Chinese intelligence operatives had more time and opportunity to copy Snowden's four laptop hard drives – a feat that wouldn't be too difficult for the Russian intelligence service to do as well.
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"It's fairly easy to do with right equipment," the official explained. "They get you when you leave it in your hotel room or even at the airport when they get you in an interrogation room at immigration."
Did they just imply they are not using full disc encryption on NSA laptops?
- dwild 13y agoI thought he was working for a contractor for the NSA.
- danbruc 13y agoOf course, but does that make the situation any better? I don't know if the laptops are NSA or Booz Allen property but neither unencrypted NSA laptops nor allowing contractors to use unencrypted laptops to access systems with top secret information seems a good idea.