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Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs
cold fjord writes: Writing at Wired, Bruce Schneier states that he believes that China and Russia actually do have the Snowden documents, but that the path by which they got them may be different than what has been reported: "... The vulnerability is not Snowden; it's everyone who has access to the files. I've handled some of the Snowden documents myself, and even though I'm a paranoid cryptographer, I know how difficult it is to maintain perfect security. It's been open season on the computers of the journalists Snowden shared documents with since this story broke in July 2013. And while they have been taking extraordinary pains to secure those computers, it's almost certainly not enough to keep out the world's intelligence services. .... Which brings me to the second potential source of these documents to foreign intelligence agencies: the US and UK governments themselves. I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them because they've penetrated the NSA networks where those files reside."
I saw Almost Definitely open for Conditional Probability and Nearly Pregnant on AmbiguityPalooza'MMmmm. . . .
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
@Anonymous Coward: "keep them locked up and off the fucking internet."
Are you a security professional?
"I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them because they've penetrated the NSA networks where those files reside."
As a computer security professional I would be most interested in your thoughts on what were these files even doing on these networked computers
As a computer professional I would be most interested in why you claim the title of security professional but can't work out why files that are shared with thousand of people throughout the world would be on a network.