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Re:NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2024 by rcbdev on Friday September 06, 2024 @09:01AM (#41465784)
> The Snowden stuff is extraordinarily excerpted to that which a contractor (Snowden) was seeing

I highly recommend you read his autobiography. The typical Beltway career in IT is getting clearance and then coming in as a contractor, there is nothing out of the ordinary here.

Adding to that, he was directly employed by the CIA from 2006 to 2009. The "contractor" line is a really sad attempt to discredit him.

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Re:NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2024 by jjtheblunt on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:07PM (#41468860)
The point is not discrediting but scoping what he was involved in, which for example does not intersect a different area I know personally.
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