It’s especially funny because Snowden was an NSA IT guy. Sure, using wget cURL, etc. is hardly rocket surgery for people a great many rungs down the pecking order, and using the slightly friendlier and less flexible mass-backup tools with friendly GUIs is only a couple of steps above just helplessly drooling on the keyboard; but you’d think that even the dustiest of newspapers would give a techie at an organization that builds among the planet’s largest mass-scraping tools credit for not even considering doing it manually if a scraper would work.
(Incidentally, I wonder if the Times’ own web people rolled their eyes at this one, probably having used such witchery once or twice…)
