Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/28/nsa-ex-contractor-harold-marti.html
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Big NSA news day.
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So, his only crime is carelessness? He didn’t undermine a fair election at the behest of a hostile foreign power?
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That wouldn’t have gotten him jail time.
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Unless he was a Person of Color, Muslim, or Trans, that is; they never seem to have a problem imprisoning folks who are “Other.”
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hahahahahahahaha no the amount of classified material he kept at home goes far beyond carelessness. The total size is measured in terabytes, with an undisclosed amount of it classified.
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Yeah, I expect this is a plea accepted by the government so they don’t have to risk spilling sensitive/embarrassing information at trial.
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The bigger crime was using the word cyber on linkedin
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Alternatively they haven’t decided if the guy is just a hoarder or not and I’m guessing since they didn’t find any intentional release, they’re not going to slam him.
He wouldn’t even have been the first hoarder.
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At least he’s not a whistleblower, they’d have him in solitary confinement for the rest of his life if he did that.
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That alone does not preclude mere carelessness. I’ve got a couple terabyte-plus sized drives that I carry in my backpack. Leaving them laying around would be an easy mistake.
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** cough ** Patraeus ** cough **
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Interesting that they call themselves a “security” agency, given the tidal waves of material they let out the door.
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But the Trump and Clinton emails?
Yeah you wouldn’t carry terabyte-sized hard drives into a classified site, copy classified data onto them, and then take them out. That’s not carelessness.
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