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The author does say that Snowden was an NSA admin and should know how to be anonymous.

• dllthomas 13y ago
  Yes, and maybe he knew it could not be done with sufficient reliability.
• vidarh 13y ago
  Except the moment you know there's a leak, you can start to monitor network access closely and vary certain bits and pieces in documents etc., and see who has/had access to whatever leaks next to relatively quickly pinpoint the source. He might have been able to stay anonymous if he did a one time dump of data (as he did) and leaked that and then kept his mouth shut. He'd be caught relatively quickly if he kept leaking documents over time. And it's one thing to have access, another thing to have sufficient access to delete all your tracks. If the NSA are serious about their security, there will be certain audit logs of activity that goes to printers in locked rooms.
• coldtea 13y ago
  And the author knows more than Snowden did on the feasibility of this, why? Because he is also an admin? In a totally unrelated business? As if any network admin knows all about security, secret services and such just as good as an NSA contractor, just because they can also read their users mail and su as them! I call BS.