Another US spy worker steals data

[schumi]

Washington - US prosecutors on Thursday said they expected to file espionage charges against a private contractor for the National Security Agency suspected of stealing an "astonishing quantity" of classified information.

Harold Martin III was arrested August 27 in Maryland and poses a "grave danger" to the United States, prosecutors wrote in a filing ahead of a detention hearing set for Friday in Baltimore.

Martin, who has now been fired, worked for Booz Allen Hamilton - the same firm that hired the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Martin was entrusted to work with classified information for several government agencies and allegedly had been stealing information since 1996.

"The defendant violated that trust by engaging in wholesale theft of classified government documents and property - a course of felonious conduct that is breathtaking in its longevity and scale," prosecutors wrote.

They said Martin had swiped at least 50 000 gigabytes of information, though not all of it was classified.

One single gigabyte is enough space to store about 10 000 pages of documents containing images and text.

More at: http://www.news24.com/World/News/another-us-spy-worker-steals-data-20161021

 

[Nuke]

50TB, it should be interesting.

Hope he has contingency plans to get it released when they put him on trial...

 

[Gordon_R]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37727386

If the case succeeds, it raises serious questions about NSA security, says Alan Woodward, a computer security expert from Surrey University.
"The only extraordinary thing about this story is the volume of data stolen," he said.
"If someone was taking the data out of the NSA over a very long period of time, regardless of motive, it does raise a few questions about how they were able to do that: if someone is removing data habitually you'd expect that to be spotted."

 

[access]

and why do these people feel the need to show the world this information.. is what i am wondering.

what is so hectic, that they would risk themselves for the world to know.

 

[crackersa]

Read this guy had files in his car and was just driving around..m

 

[sbu22]

Bon

Read this guy had files in his car and was just driving around..m

 

[Nanfeishen]

and why do these people feel the need to show the world this information.. is what i am wondering.

what is so hectic, that they would risk themselves for the world to know.

It has little to do with what the information is. The US government is obsessed with secrecy and compartmentalization. The smallest, trivial bit of information may be "classified" or marked "eyes only".
One just has to browse through Wikileaks to see the amount of absolute nonsense and speculative memo's to realise how petty the whole idea really is.
Also "whistleblowers" are not seen as individuals exposing lies and deceit as they once were, nowadays they are painted as those disloyal to the greater good and traitors.
The facade of "The government acts in the greater good" and idea that "National Security" overides all other requirements of the people must be maintained at all costs.

America's Secret Obsession
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802496.html

The government's ludicrous obsession with secrecy
http://theweek.com/articles/465872/governments-ludicrous-obsession-secrecy

Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — Until Hillary Clinton
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05...ing-secrecy-violations-until-hillary-clinton/

 

[JustAsk]

and why do these people feel the need to show the world this information.. is what i am wondering.

what is so hectic, that they would risk themselves for the world to know.

Trojan horses.

The other one "made it to" Russia, this one will most propably make it to/leak it to China. To add credibility to the info, there has to be some damning stuff in it too, infected with some super virus using these so-called "rogue spies" or their leaks as the delivery method.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

No worries, just claim there was no specific intent to compromise classified information and you're off the hook ... aka the Hillary defense ...

 

[Solarion]

It has little to do with what the information is. The US government is obsessed with secrecy and compartmentalization. The smallest, trivial bit of information may be "classified" or marked "eyes only".
One just has to browse through Wikileaks to see the amount of absolute nonsense and speculative memo's to realise how petty the whole idea really is.
Also "whistleblowers" are not seen as individuals exposing lies and deceit as they once were, nowadays they are painted as those disloyal to the greater good and traitors.
The facade of "The government acts in the greater good" and idea that "National Security" overides all other requirements of the people must be maintained at all costs.

America's Secret Obsession
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802496.html

The government's ludicrous obsession with secrecy
http://theweek.com/articles/465872/governments-ludicrous-obsession-secrecy

Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — Until Hillary Clinton
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05...ing-secrecy-violations-until-hillary-clinton/

If you mark everything as "classified", you are hiding your needles in a giant haystack. Just have to know what you are looking for. Information is a lot easier to hide if it's surrounded by a bodyguard of bull****.