Could Edward Snowden really shut down the NSA?
Byron Acohido
USA TODAY 4:09 p.m. EDT June 11, 2013
... Agency investigators now should be able to trace Snowden's internet activities and determine the true extent of his infiltration of sensitive material, says Wade Williamson, senior security analyst at firewall company Palo Alto Networks.
It's a big leap from stealing classified PowerPoint slides to wire tapping phones and accessing dossiers for spies and other agency personal. And the NSA presumably segmented access to very sensitive data says Williamson.
"I have access to lots and lots of confidential documents here at my company, but I'm not allowed to change how the network runs," Williamson says. "He (Snowden) may have had access to PowerPoint slides, but not necessarily have control of all those other systems.
"What we don't know is how broad that leak really was. From a national security point of view, that's where I would want to go back and take a hard look at the veracity of his statements" ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/cybertruth/2013/06/11/could-edward-snowden-really-shut-down-the-nsa/2412839/
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