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Ex-NSA Worker Pleads Guilty
Brui Direct ^ | December 3rd, 2017 | courtesy of ENGADGET by Jon Fingas

Posted on 12/02/2017 9:04:54 PM PST by Rabin

The admission revealed the identity behind a big data breach. Nghia Hoang Pho, 67.

Nghia, Carted home, “Top Secret” and “Sensitive Compartmented”, Information for over five years. These files were downloaded onto Pho’s personal computer and then routinely harvested by Russian intelligence. Pho took a mix of digital and physical info home between 2010 and 2015. he was using it to rewrite his resume -- this was intentional, but not spiteful.

Pho may face prison time when he's sentenced on April 6th, but prosecutors “are open to calls for a lighter sentence” given the non-malicious nature of the case. It does show that the agency is racing to crack down on the multiple leaks it has suffered over recent months and years. The effort might also serve as a warning shot to NSA staff that may be tempted to leave with data, even if it's for innocuous reasons.

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2015; 201712; clintonlegacy; cybersecurity; hacked; hackers; leakers; leaks; nghia; nghiahoangpho; nonmalicious; nothingtoseehere; nsa; obamalegacy; russia; russianespionage; russians; shadowbrokers; spies; spooks; ts; tssci
HRC, Huma & Andy, Pho, Harold Martin, Reality Winner. Cracking down on the pumpkin patch.

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Raben

1 posted on 12/02/2017 9:04:54 PM PST by Rabin
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To: Rabin

Get them all.


2 posted on 12/02/2017 9:06:43 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Rabin
Pho took a mix of digital and physical info home between 2010 and 2015. he was using it to rewrite his resume

TS/SCI stuff? To "rewrite his resume"???

BULLSHIT!!!!

3 posted on 12/02/2017 9:11:14 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

But...but... it wasn’t malicious.


4 posted on 12/02/2017 9:18:19 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Rabin

Comey the Pretzel Maker can investigate it, conclude that no prosecutor would take the case, and let him walk. Comey might volunteer to destroy the man’s laptop for good measure.


5 posted on 12/02/2017 9:21:18 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: NorthMountain

Employees are specifically told not to do this. He must be a total moron.


6 posted on 12/02/2017 9:44:55 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Rabin

Wasn’t there a woman just busted for this? A contractor maybe?


7 posted on 12/02/2017 9:45:54 PM PST by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: Rabin

“My client identifies as Hillary Clinton.”


8 posted on 12/02/2017 9:54:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rabin

... between 2010 and 2015.

The 0bama administration can shoulder 100% of the blame.


9 posted on 12/02/2017 10:24:50 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Washington DC - Swampland of money and unindicted crooks ))))
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To: Rabin

I’ve never read a resume with TS/SCI information on it. “Non-malicious” my aching butt. Lock him up.


10 posted on 12/02/2017 10:28:34 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Rabin

Doesn’t sound like they have much security at NSA. I know people who have worked DOD projects where you practically had to strip naked to leave the facility, along with a full body X-Ray each time.

(not quite, but no cell phones, USB ports disabled on those computers, network wiring in plain sight to make it easy to spot taps, etc.)


11 posted on 12/03/2017 1:37:02 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Rabin

Non-malicious? I knew people who were merely careless with (very highly) sensitive material and did serious time behind bars because of it. Once you put TS material on your computer, you are very far beyond the level of simple carelessness/recklessness that we used to punish. Lock him up!


12 posted on 12/03/2017 3:48:20 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Rabin

If he stuffed the suff in his socks we can just chalk it up to a lapse in judgement.


13 posted on 12/03/2017 6:14:40 AM PST by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: Rabin

We executed the Rosenbergs. Would we do that today?


14 posted on 12/03/2017 1:51:40 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Fedora

check out “non-malicious” in justification for a light penalty...


15 posted on 02/10/2018 11:34:18 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Secret Agent Man

bingo


16 posted on 02/10/2018 11:35:36 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

He should be hung non-maliciously.


17 posted on 02/10/2018 12:17:57 PM PST by Fedora
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To: NorthMountain

Roger that. Had I mentioned any TS INFO in letters to my family or friends my fanny would have been in Leavenworth. Like Comey and his notes, had I taken any notes on any of our TS cross border OPS or Eldest Son, my ass would be in Leavenworth. Had I mentioned our support for certain INDIG teams the same. Why are these idiots taking classified INFO out of their damn S2/INTEL office? Hell, I had to make certain all TSN docs were locked in the filing cabinet plus the building was locked. We need to go back to PAPER.


18 posted on 04/28/2018 2:49:39 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Billthedrill

No kidding, I had years long holes in my resume because you couldn’t even mention the program names.


19 posted on 05/01/2018 3:20:27 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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