Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A.
Found on The New York Times on Sunday, 09 February 2014
Using “web crawler” software designed to search, index and back up a website, Mr. Snowden “scraped data out of our systems” while he went about his day job, according to a senior intelligence official. “We do not believe this was an individual sitting at a machine and downloading this much material in sequence,” the official said. The process, he added, was “quite automated.”
Really now? The NSA hires external administrators and expect that they won't automate a workflow to save thousands of documents? If they seriously thought that he was sitting there and clicking "Save as..." thousands of times, they are in the wrong business.