He was a student , about 20 I think then. Either or there’s more to this than meets the eye to be sure.
Yes, but...he has had (I hope!) 9 years of experience that at some point he would have said:
“Hmm. This is a bad idea to let people store whatever they want to on this server without me knowing about it, especially since I work (worked) at the CIA!!!!!!”
LOL, first, you would think it would make him more susceptible to either a frame job, or a candidate for blackmail, neither of which can be good when you have a security clearance.
I guess if you work in that environment, it must be like the frog in the water that is slowly being heated up...