Curious case of NSA, a contractor & Russian Kaspersky Lab
Harold T. Martin, an NSA contractor, was turned into NSA by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab. He had stolen many terabytes of data and brought it home. A few months later the USA issued warnings against the company and called them a threat to the country. It is all very mysterious and confounding. That said, I am boggled by two things — how the hell is NSA so leaky. And some of the folks involved aren’t very smart about the basics of Social Internet presence. Kim Zetter’s exclusive is worth a read.