Résumé Shows Snowden Honed Hacking Skills

[DesMoinesDem]

In 2010, while working for a National Security Agency contractor, Edward J. Snowden learned to be a hacker.

He took a course that trains security professionals to think like hackers and understand their techniques, all with the intent of turning out “certified ethical hackers” who can better defend their employers’ networks.

But the certification, listed on a résumé that Mr. Snowden later prepared, would also have given him some of the skills he needed to rummage undetected through N.S.A. computer systems and gather the highly classified surveillance documents that he leaked last month, security experts say.

Mr. Snowden’s résumé, which has not been made public and was described by people who have seen it, provides a new picture of how his skills and responsibilities expanded while he worked as an intelligence contractor. Although federal officials offered only a vague description of him as a “systems administrator,” the résumé suggests that he had transformed himself into the kind of cybersecurity expert the N.S.A. is desperate to recruit, making his decision to release the documents even more embarrassing to the agency.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/us/resume-shows-snowden-honed-hacking-skills.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. I'm just curious how many other Snowdens are out there; waiting to

reveal another anti-Democratic tactic that the USA is using against its own people.

[morningfog]

2. Hopefully hundreds.

[KittyWampus]

3. funny how you always ignore the giving of sensitive/classified info to the Chinese/Russians.

[Luminous Animal]

7. Funny how you can't prove that he gave them anything.

[baldguy]

5. Has Snowden at any point expressed concern over the privatization of our intelligence apparatus?

Has he been critical of Booz Allen, the Carlyle Group, or any of the other private corporations he has been employed by?

No, he has not. All his criticism has been focused on the NSA & the Obama Admin - and his sycophants have followed exactly in the direction he's pointed them. No critical thinking involved.

Now, imagine if your wildest dreams come true, no matter how unlikely: The PATRIOT Act is rescinded, FISA is struck down as unconstitutional, the NSA, the CIA and the FBI are all disbanded. Do you really think, that after spending multiple billions of dollars to set up this surveillance infrastructure, that private corporations like Booz Allen et al is going to just give it all up?

Really?

Fact: If you're a left-leaning, 4th Amendment loving, anti-corporate, anti-establishment libertarian - then people like Ed Snowden are not your friends.

But Barack Obama could be.

[bemildred]

6. Here is Snowden in his own words:

http://www.policymic.com/articles/47355/edward-snowden-interview-transcript-full-text-read-the-guardian-s-entire-interview-with-the-man-who-leaked-prism

[baldguy]

9. So the answer is "no" then.

[Luminous Animal]

8. If the NSA is disbanded, who is going to contract Booz Allen, e al, for theiir services?

[baldguy]

10. .

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2013/full_list/

[HipChick]

12. They will just change their name and do fine...that's what Arthur Anderson did after Enron

They changed their name to Accenture...and they are a huge player in the IT game..didn't impact at all

[Fumesucker]

11. Anyone truly qualified to do the job is qualified to hack their own system too

Which system do they have the most access to and the most control over?

The one they're working through of course.