Event Details
May 18, 2013
Description
Snowden departed for Hong Kong with stolen documents.
Participants (1)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Snowden | person | 1249 | View Entity |
Source Documents (2)
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This document appears to be page 79 of a book (likely by Edward Jay Epstein, given the filename code) detailing Edward Snowden's theft of NSA data. It describes his methods, including social engineering to get passwords, using 'spider' software to crawl networks, and exploiting unsealed USB ports on service computers at the Hawaii base. The page bears a House Oversight Committee stamp, indicating it was used as evidence or reference material in congressional proceedings.
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This document page, likely from a House Oversight report, details the timeline and methods Edward Snowden used to steal classified NSA data in 2013. It covers his preparations in Hawaii, including deceiving Booz Allen about medical leave, obtaining colleagues' passwords through deception, and using automated 'spider' software to index over one million documents, many classified as Level 3 Sensitive Compartmented Information. The text highlights security failures, such as the lack of real-time auditing at the Hawaii base and the 'open culture' that facilitated password sharing.
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