A Closer Look At How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Was Able To Steal Tens Of Thousands Of NSA Documents

Reuters

CyberTruth: Closer Look At Snowden's NSA Caper -- USA Today

SEATTLE – Edward Snowden wrote himself into history books by pilfering some 50,000 pages of classified intelligence from the National Security Agency.

That was last May, and there has been little public discussion about how he did it. Until now.

Researchers at security firm Venafi are making a bold claim that they've deduced the basic steps Snowden must have taken to abscond with sensitive data protected by state-of-the-art network security systems.

To go undetected while copying and transferring a massive trove of NSA documents, Snowden had to have manipulated a couple of technologies most people have never heard of: Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic keys and digital certificates, asserts Jeff Hudson, Venafi's CEO.

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My Comment: It appears that Edward Snowden used the same tactics that the NSA uses to spy on others on others .... but in this case .... these techniques were used on them and by someone on the inside.