[Bush2000]

Gee, I wonder whether Amazon or the FBI or the CIA or the NSA would care about a local exploit capability in the Linux kernel.... /SARCASM

The Myth of Cyberterrorism

This is true of most serious cybersecurity breaches--they tend to come from insiders. It was Robert Hanssen's familiarity with the FBI's computer system that allowed him to exploit it despite its security. In both cases, the perpetrators weren't terrorists but rogue employees with specialized knowledge difficult, if not impossible, for outsiders to acquire--a security concern, but not one attributable to cyberterrorism.

[antiRepublicrat]

Gee, I wonder whether Amazon or the FBI or the CIA or the NSA would care about a local exploit capability in the Linux kernel

Did either of these people use a privilege elevation exploit? In the Australian case, why did he have an account to elevate in the first place?