Hints suggest an insider helped the NSA “Equation Group” hacking tools leak

Structure of leaked files, other factors suggest someone inside "air gap" snuck them out.

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The naming convention used for the directories and files, as well as some of the scripts included in the dump, suggested the documents were copied from an internal system at the NSA that would have never been in contact with external networks. As Motherboard's source told reporters Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox, "My colleagues and I are fairly certain that this was no hack, or group for that matter...This ‘Shadow Brokers’ character is one guy, an insider employee.”

Well, that's a relief then. After Snowden and the server move, NSA is bound to have detailed access logs to each and every file contained within the dump so it will be trivial to point out the culprit. It's not like they just made a copy and let a new batch of contractors loose, right?

 

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ars diavoli[/url]":2msl0815]Humans are almost always the weakest point of a security system.

It's all right, humans are always also the only point of a security system.