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2016-08-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-24 08:09|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 simply downloaded secrets on a thumb-drive, which he passed to GRU every month or so.

Imagine that !

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-24 08:15|| 2016-08-24 08:15|| Front Page Top

#2 If GRU wasn’t interested in that when Delisle offered it to them, the only explanation is that Moscow already had that very sensitive information.

I call bullsh*t.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-08-24 10:26|| 2016-08-24 10:26|| Front Page Top

#3 The geniuses at NSA allow thumb drives in their facilities? They have computers on their internal networks that have USB ports where thumb drives can be inserted? This is sheer incompetence.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-08-24 11:53|| 2016-08-24 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 If GRU wasn’t interested in that when Delisle offered it to them, the only explanation is that Moscow already had that very sensitive information.
I call bullsh*t.
Posted by g(r)omgoru

Russians don't like paying retail.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-24 12:02|| 2016-08-24 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Coventry.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-08-24 12:55|| 2016-08-24 12:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Back in the 90s I wrote technical documentation for a large server company. One project had the NSA and the CIA as customers. These servers had 10,000 dollar boards in them that when they had a problem my company wanted them back. The NSA and CIA said no dice, someone could write code to the NVRAM chips and get info out of their black sites so the boards stayed until we produce a program that could wipe all the NVRAm chips clean and verify they were clean.

Back then I understood all USB ports were crazy-glued shut.

Either things have changed big time, the Canadians are far more lax than their American counterparts, or something is wrong with this story.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-08-24 14:57|| 2016-08-24 14:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Just outa curiosity, they use PS/2 ports for mice and keyed?

Posted by Shipman 2016-08-24 16:57|| 2016-08-24 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/nsa-asks-itself-is-it-ok-for-cto-to-also-work-for-former-heads-firm/

Posted by Skidmark 2016-08-24 19:53|| 2016-08-24 19:53|| Front Page Top

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