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| The Real Russian Mole Inside NSA |
| 2016-08-24 |
| BLUF: [Observer] There are other indications of Russian penetration of NSA that had nothing to do with Snowden. An espionage case that got too little attention was that of Jeffrey Delisle, a Canadian navy junior officer who was arrested in 2012 for passing secrets to Moscow. He admitted his guilt, specifically that for almost five years beginning in 2007, he regularly sold secrets to GRU, that is Russian military intelligence. Upset over his wife’s infidelity and short of cash, the sad-sack Delisle, who was assigned to a Canadian intelligence center in Halifax, simply downloaded secrets on a thumb-drive, which he passed to GRU every month or so. Most of what Delisle gave Moscow wasn’t Canadian information but belonged to Five Eyes, much of which came from NSA. Yet the most interesting part of the Delisle case is what GRU did not want from him. As one intelligence scholar noted: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/nsa-asks-itself-is-it-ok-for-cto-to-also-work-for-former-heads-firm/ |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-08-24 19:53 |
| #7 Just outa curiosity, they use PS/2 ports for mice and keyed? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-24 16:57 |
| #6 Back in the 90s I wrote technical documentation for a large server company. One project had the NSA and the CIA as customers. These servers had 10,000 dollar boards in them that when they had a problem my company wanted them back. The NSA and CIA said no dice, someone could write code to the NVRAM chips and get info out of their black sites so the boards stayed until we produce a program that could wipe all the NVRAm chips clean and verify they were clean. Back then I understood all USB ports were crazy-glued shut. Either things have changed big time, the Canadians are far more lax than their American counterparts, or something is wrong with this story. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-08-24 14:57 |
| #5 Coventry. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-08-24 12:55 |
| #4 If GRU wasn’t interested in that when Delisle offered it to them, the only explanation is that Moscow already had that very sensitive information. I call bullsh*t. Posted by g(r)omgoru Russians don't like paying retail. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-24 12:02 |
| #3 The geniuses at NSA allow thumb drives in their facilities? They have computers on their internal networks that have USB ports where thumb drives can be inserted? This is sheer incompetence. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-08-24 11:53 |
| #2 If GRU wasn’t interested in that when Delisle offered it to them, the only explanation is that Moscow already had that very sensitive information. I call bullsh*t. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-08-24 10:26 |
| #1 simply downloaded secrets on a thumb-drive, which he passed to GRU every month or so. Imagine that ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-24 08:15 |