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Interesting comments so far ... I'm more incensed that Obama called him a hacker. There was absolutely no hacking as he had a security clearance to work with (
by smoyer 13y ago
Interesting comments so far ... I'm more incensed that Obama called him a hacker. There was absolutely no hacking as he had a security clearance to work with (and apparently copy) the data he was responsible for.
- slg 13y agoWhile he might not be a hacker in our minds, whether he was permitted to access the documents he did is still up for debate. If he accessed them without permission, that would be enough to qualify him as a hacker under some definitions.
- potatolicious 13y agoIt's still a pretty wild stretch of the term. By that notion, trespassing through an unlocked door would make me a locksmith.
- smoyer 13y agoOr perhaps a cracker if you believe in the original usage of the word.
- Bosence 13y agoDemonize him and also case your state for requiring internet monitoring in a single blow. It's done very intentionally.
- tekacs 13y agoJust having security clearance doesn't mean that he absolutely didn't necessarily do any 'hacking' to get the data - he may well not have had direct access to the data in question, clearance or not.