NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove

krakman writes "According to a NY Times article, a 6-month internal investigation has not been able to define the actual files that Edward Snowden had copied. There is a suspicion that not all the documents have been leaked to newspapers, and a senior NSA official (Rick Ledgett), who is heading the security agency's task force examining Mr. Snowden's leak, has said on the record that he would consider recommending amnesty for Mr. Snowden in exchange for those unleaked documents. 'They've spent hundreds and hundreds of man-hours trying to reconstruct everything he has gotten, and they still don't know all of what he took,' a senior administration official said. 'I know that seems crazy, but everything with this is crazy.' That Mr. Snowden was so expertly able to exploit blind spots in the systems of America's most secretive spy agency illustrates how far computer security still lagged years after President Obama ordered standards tightened after the WikiLeaks revelations of 2010."

Comments

Re:And so, it begins

[cranky_chemist]

It's worse than that.

They're afraid that the world will soon learn some inconvenient truths: (a) that Oswald in fact acted alone in assassinating Kennedy, (b) that the crashed object at Roswell was in fact a high-altitude weather balloon, (c) that the Rosenberg's were in fact Soviet spies, (d) that the moon landings in fact happened and were not staged in a Houston hangar, and (e) that every ounce of the gold in Ft. Knox is in fact sitting exactly where it should be.

And then the American public might start asking questions related to ACTUAL government conspiracies.

The horror...

That's one powerful add-on

[davidwr]

A phone call from BHO to Mr. Putin

I've heard of browser helper objects phoning home, but never phoning heads of state.

I wonder if this BHO can make my experience at healthcare.gov any more pleasant?

Don't worry NSA

[HalAtWork]

If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide!

Re:They have *worse* to hide?

[flyingfsck]

Sharepoint? You got to be joking. Why would the NSA use Sharepoint to store heaps and heaps of data? Surely they are using Access.