Their narratives are getting more obvious and crumbling faster though. No-one believes some random low level guardsman had access to top secret documents and this little blame shift won't be the end of it.
Actually I find that completely believable given what I've seen over the course of my career. You need to divest yourself of your Hollywood notions of how classified environments and information are handled. Kid works in an intelligence agency and is in a few Active Directory groups that are used to give access to some network shares and because doing security at a proper granular level and adhering to principles of least privilege is actually pretty demanding from a logistical standpoint...well the long and short of it is that no one wants to manage hundreds of AD groups and it's impractical to do so, so you get shoved in a few groups that have more permissions than they probably ought to and if you're curious you can just go exploring the share drive and find stuff that isn't explicitly necessary for you to do your job.
I've seen it play out over and over again. This shit is so mundane and normal but everyone's got this fantasy image about how classified information gets handled because you've all been watching spy movies instead of working in the industry.
Take it up with an intelligence officer, Rambo. Either way someone far above the level of this private is responsible and they're trying to save face with the standard white man bad shtick.
You believe what a CIA spook says on the mainstream media circuit? Are you retarded? Dude was in the military which usually warrants some level of clearance. This spook says it takes years to get. Ok let's roll with that assumption. They also said this kid didn't go to college, so I'll assume he joined the Guard right after high school. That's 3 years, plenty of time to get base level of Secret clearance (which isn't actually all that hard). He gets put on the intelligence project and then probably lands an interim TS, at which point they're fine to read him on for the SCI. The fact that he's with the military and young means his background check doesn't take all that long, doubly so if the kid led a relatively boring life and didn't get into trouble with the law or travel overseas.
Again, it is entirely believable that this kid had access to top secret documents.
If the kid was called up to work a mission or target tangential to or actually involved in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it's very believable he could have reached beyond his scope without immediate notice
Of course they're running Windows. My god. Is everyone retarded? You think the government employs nothing but Linux gurus? No. All the intelligence analysts are gormless normies who wouldn't know what to do with a bash shell if you clubbed them over the head with it. It's Windows and Active Directory all the way down. The only time you're dealing with a Linux file system is if you're part of IT dealing with the back end infrastructure.
Their narratives are getting more obvious and crumbling faster though. No-one believes some random low level guardsman had access to top secret documents and this little blame shift won't be the end of it.
Actually I find that completely believable given what I've seen over the course of my career. You need to divest yourself of your Hollywood notions of how classified environments and information are handled. Kid works in an intelligence agency and is in a few Active Directory groups that are used to give access to some network shares and because doing security at a proper granular level and adhering to principles of least privilege is actually pretty demanding from a logistical standpoint...well the long and short of it is that no one wants to manage hundreds of AD groups and it's impractical to do so, so you get shoved in a few groups that have more permissions than they probably ought to and if you're curious you can just go exploring the share drive and find stuff that isn't explicitly necessary for you to do your job.
I've seen it play out over and over again. This shit is so mundane and normal but everyone's got this fantasy image about how classified information gets handled because you've all been watching spy movies instead of working in the industry.
Take it up with an intelligence officer, Rambo. Either way someone far above the level of this private is responsible and they're trying to save face with the standard white man bad shtick.
You believe what a CIA spook says on the mainstream media circuit? Are you retarded? Dude was in the military which usually warrants some level of clearance. This spook says it takes years to get. Ok let's roll with that assumption. They also said this kid didn't go to college, so I'll assume he joined the Guard right after high school. That's 3 years, plenty of time to get base level of Secret clearance (which isn't actually all that hard). He gets put on the intelligence project and then probably lands an interim TS, at which point they're fine to read him on for the SCI. The fact that he's with the military and young means his background check doesn't take all that long, doubly so if the kid led a relatively boring life and didn't get into trouble with the law or travel overseas.
Again, it is entirely believable that this kid had access to top secret documents.
If the kid was called up to work a mission or target tangential to or actually involved in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it's very believable he could have reached beyond his scope without immediate notice
I mean, it is trivially easy in any Unix environment, to grant per file access to a virtually unlimited number of users.
The indecision for me is that I could definitely beleive that the CIA is running Windows...
Of course they're running Windows. My god. Is everyone retarded? You think the government employs nothing but Linux gurus? No. All the intelligence analysts are gormless normies who wouldn't know what to do with a bash shell if you clubbed them over the head with it. It's Windows and Active Directory all the way down. The only time you're dealing with a Linux file system is if you're part of IT dealing with the back end infrastructure.