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Comment by omonra | Hacker News Reader

It could be just me, but this story bothers me a lot more than all the non-stop coverage about NSA.

Perhaps I had always expected NSA to snoop on everything on the internet whereas this shows complete breakdown in common sense by the government.

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The most dangerous crime you can commit is to embarrass this government.

It's a pretty ballsy move to martyr these people. It may end up bringing much more awareness to the simple undeniable fact that the people charged with the defense of one of our most sensitive military facilities were totally and utterly incompetent. If they were smart then they would go totally by the book to make the story as unexceptional as possible, anything that draws attention to this case does not look good for them. Of course their incompetence has already been demonstrated on the ground, so why should their PR be any better?

They exposed the lack of security, thereby threatening the revenues of some contractor(s) and kickbacks of some generals.

Reminds me of the charade of security exposed by Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko in his book Rogue Warrior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko

TL;DR: His team did penetration testing pretty much everywhere, with great success, embarrassing the hierarchy.

more than a lack of common sense - it's vindictive, thuggish behaviour.

(then again - aaron swartz...)

Also completely, blatantly unjust, yet comming straight from US justice system.

I think those are actually supporting each other. One is about getting more power. Other is the demonstration that they are not to be trusted with that power.

I'm infuriated and disturbed by both stories.

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