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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by sp332 on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:32AM (#6915283)
It doesn't mention anything about security. There's a backup system, and a web front-end. Whatever his work was, it was impressive enough to get him an invite to the Tailored Access Operations. Not all work at the NSA was cutting-edge encryption.
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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by Edmond on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:37AM (#6915328)
How did you miss that? the whole article speaks to his supposed security prowess:

* Snowden had been brought to Hawaii as a cybersecurity expert working for Dell’s services division but due to a problem with the contract was reassigned to become an administrator for the Microsoft intranet management system known as Sharepoint.

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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by sp332 on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:41AM (#6915362)
And the next sentence starts Impressed with his technical abilities, Snowden’s managers decided that he was the most qualified candidate to build a new web front-end So whatever he did that was impressive, it wasn't security-related.
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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by ZoF on Monday December 16, 2013 @12:04PM (#6916056)
How can you tell from that statement that his impressive act was 100% not security related.... All you can really say is that it wasn't necessarily security related.
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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by chris_mahan on Monday December 16, 2013 @12:26PM (#6916223)
Anyone building a web front-end needs to have a lot of security-related knowledge (implement https correctly, cross site scripting and other js vulnerabilities, sql injection, buffer overflows in your apps, etc.)
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