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Re:Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers by stephengillie on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:51PM (#10043854)
> Security within the NSA would have to be pretty terrible if employees were running their own hedge funds on the NSA's data without the NSA noticing.

I believe this is one of the points that Edward Snowden was trying to make. He himself could have had a hedge fund, and he could have used private information he gained in his NSA contracting before that information became public knowledge.

Hell, his coworkers were getting in minor trouble for stalking their exes.

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Re:Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers by influx on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @10:36PM (#10045701)
Be real, Top Secret clearance checks routinely look at finances, and employees are told to report colleagues purchases that seem out of place. Not necessarily because they are running a hedge fund, but more likely are receiving money from the "KGB" to steal secrets.
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