An E3 in intelligence. Of course with his MOS he had the standard Secret Clearance but that doesn't mean he can just browse and copy shit to his hearts desire like the media likes to make it sound by mentioning...SECRET clearance!
There's a lot more to the story
Technically, yes. But there is also a need-to-know requirement. It beggars the imagination to think that someone so young and so far from the channels of activity would have such specific clearances. Just because you are cleared to a level does not mean you can simply open a drawer and browse. You also have to be approved for need to know. What Kash is saying is correct (and bugger the spellcheck error---there is no "comm" if the message is in code...and you don't know the code).
I’m reading more about the product and it was a CIA product. Now that I’ve read/learned more this was an ODNI product and doubtful that E3 had access. This guy is a pasty. Someone gave it to him.
Yeah, but still restricted somehow. I had a secret clearance at a rank lower then his which was just for working on what was actually old and low tech equipment and accessing it's manuals. But it didn't mean I could then go to some other work center and check out their equipment and manuals .
Still on a need to know basis.
I bet they say he hacked his way through to where he wasn't supposed to be
If true, he would have had a TS/SCI with Lifestyle Poly. I carried that clearance for years and had access to all sorts of networks. That said, he had a DOD clearance which doesn't give you access to CIA products unless they are on a DOD network. He would have to have had his clearance in Scattered Castles to have access to CIA databases.
If he had some kind of IT admin job maintaining the various systems that this classified information transits back and forth on could he have seen them and accessed them that way? I have various friends who work in IT for large corporations and they basically have the keys to the kingdom. You are basically entrusted to see everything because you have to.
I worked at a large specialist IT supplier and it was the IT guys who tipped me off that we were being sold and they also knew our depot had been slated for closure before the hatchet men showed up partly because they could see all our orders were being redirected and they shut down a lot of our network access.
An E3 in intelligence. Of course with his MOS he had the standard Secret Clearance but that doesn't mean he can just browse and copy shit to his hearts desire like the media likes to make it sound by mentioning...SECRET clearance! There's a lot more to the story
Intel E3 could’ve had TS/SCI w access to JWICS and/or NSANET.
Technically, yes. But there is also a need-to-know requirement. It beggars the imagination to think that someone so young and so far from the channels of activity would have such specific clearances. Just because you are cleared to a level does not mean you can simply open a drawer and browse. You also have to be approved for need to know. What Kash is saying is correct (and bugger the spellcheck error---there is no "comm" if the message is in code...and you don't know the code).
I’m reading more about the product and it was a CIA product. Now that I’ve read/learned more this was an ODNI product and doubtful that E3 had access. This guy is a pasty. Someone gave it to him.
I think you meant "patsy" (our pal, Spellcheck), but with his age, he was probably also pasty.
Yeah, but still restricted somehow. I had a secret clearance at a rank lower then his which was just for working on what was actually old and low tech equipment and accessing it's manuals. But it didn't mean I could then go to some other work center and check out their equipment and manuals . Still on a need to know basis. I bet they say he hacked his way through to where he wasn't supposed to be
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If true, he would have had a TS/SCI with Lifestyle Poly. I carried that clearance for years and had access to all sorts of networks. That said, he had a DOD clearance which doesn't give you access to CIA products unless they are on a DOD network. He would have to have had his clearance in Scattered Castles to have access to CIA databases.
If he had some kind of IT admin job maintaining the various systems that this classified information transits back and forth on could he have seen them and accessed them that way? I have various friends who work in IT for large corporations and they basically have the keys to the kingdom. You are basically entrusted to see everything because you have to.
I worked at a large specialist IT supplier and it was the IT guys who tipped me off that we were being sold and they also knew our depot had been slated for closure before the hatchet men showed up partly because they could see all our orders were being redirected and they shut down a lot of our network access.