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Prosecutors Say Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of NSA Data (zdnet.com)
An NSA contractor siphoned off dozens of hard drives' worth of data from government computers over two decades, prosecutors will allege on Friday. From a ZDNet report: The contractor, Harold T. Martin III, is also accused of stealing thousands of highly classified documents, computers, and other storage devices during his tenure at the agency. It's not known exactly what Martin allegedly stole, but a report from The New York Times on Wednesday suggests that the recently-leaked hacking tools used by the agency to conduct surveillance were among the stolen cache of files. Prosecutors will on Friday charge Martin with violating the Espionage Act. If convicted, he could face ten years in prison on each count. The charges, news of which was first reported by The Washington Post, outline a far deeper case than first thought, compared to the felony theft and a lesser misdemeanor charge of removal and retention of classified information revealed in an unsealed indictment last month.
Apparently tons of people, if the last years is any indication.
He should have moved all that classified data through a private email server, then it would just be considered careless with no charges brought forward.
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He smuggled Bernoulli disks hidden out of the NSA in his rectum. And before you say it, yes it nearly killed him.
You are welcome on my lawn.
> It seems everybody who works for the NSA these days is stealing data illicitly.
To be fair, isn't that their job?