Umm, you do understand the difference between the Internet, SIPRnet, and JWICS, right?
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I was generalizing. Set down at your computer at Booz-Allen, login, password, access.
Get a list of U.S. spies, locations, missions.
I don’t think so.
He was an on-site contractor sysadmin at a US government, NSA facility.
And even highly compartmentalized information isn’t being memorized, or scribbled long-hand on pieces of paper stored in safes these days. It’s still going to be computerized somewhere, even if it’s not connected to a global TS network like JWICS.
The problem is that Snowden was the IT guy for some of those computers.