Datagate, just a crawler to mock the NSA - Zeus News

A program such as the Googlebot was enough to Edward Snowder to steal the secrets of the U.S..

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will be difficult for Edward Snowden, the “mole” of DataGate , to do what he did? Not much, apparently.

As revealed by the New York Times, in fact, for mock security systems NSA Snowden has not had to put to use secret hacker skills or use some kind of sophisticated programs.

Instead, the means to get all the documents later proved to have been a normal web crawler, a software that can sift through a network to index the information is the system used by the search engines.

It is not known what is the software used by Snowden, but the experts interviewed by the New York Times claim that has several points in common with the Googlebot, Google’s crawler, and with the well-known program wget (used by Bradley Manning then obtain the documents revealed by Wikileaks, a sign that even then the safety systems were not properly inviolable).

All this raises serious questions about the effects of the protections put in place by the NSA to protect its secrets, which appear to be of a very poor and lacking in a system that alerts you when someone attempts an operation similar to that of Snowden. “Although everyone can access individual messages related to their specific job, there should be a system that is knowing when someone downloads 500,000 messages?” asks U.S. Senator Mark Kirk.

It seems that the problem lies in the fact that the NSA has devices of the type indicated by the senator, but only at the headquarters in Fort Meade, given that he worked in the section of Hawaii, Snowden could work undisturbed and with simple tools without any noticing, because there was no alarm system to prevent internal threats.

“Once you’re inside, it is assumed that you are there because you have to be there, as is the case in many organizations’ explained to the Times Richard Bejtlich, a security expert at the company’s Silicon FireEye Valley. “This, however, does not explain why they were more attentive to detect excessive activity within the system” .

The NSA has not yet commented on these reports, provided by sources inside the agency at the New York Times. Snowden, however, could not help but note the irony inherent in the fact that “agents passing confidential information to journalists in an attempt to discredit me for passing confidential information to journalists’ .

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