Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500M Pages of Records and Secrets
&gt; &quot;[...] he has demonstrated absolutely no interest in protecting it&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;The filing described Mr. Martin as computer genius who easily outsmarted government efforts to protect secrets and said he possessed an advanced understanding of how to encrypt messages and hide information in cyberspace.&quot;<p>This doesn&#x27;t really make sense and the wording also hints at sensationalism. It reads like a classic case of deflection, making the accused appear considerably more powerful than he actually is.<p>This, to me, shows a few things:<p>- the NSA clearly has no clue who accesses &quot;their&quot; data, when, or how<p>- the NSA will throw anybody under the bus to save face<p>- the NSA, to this date, still refuse to put their own inadequacy in the balance and traded their integrity for the power to sustain the organization itself at the cost of everything else (including their original purpose)<p>Why on earth is this organization still allowed to operate at all?