Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "This is how authorities were able to identify the Pentagon leak suspect" video.

  1. When I was a young programmer, working for a bank, we had to check out modules, in order to change the code. You had to write external and internal specifications, and in those specifications, note which modules you'd need access to. Whenever you checked out a module, you had to note the SR# or TR# (service request or trouble report), and the external specs needed to state a need for that module, and have been approved. As I was working in Realtime programming, I could only access assembly language modules. Programmers, writing COBOL, were not allowed access to our modules. Sure, we all had specific security clearances, but we also had to demonstrate a need for each module. Of course, there was all sorts of regression testing, before we could check the modified module back in. But, the main thing was, access was specific to need. Even the security guys were not allowed to touch our code, because they were not qualified to understand assembly language. When I was working on communication protocol changes, I could only access the input and output modules, of other departments. If this guy was only maintaining IT, why was he given access to areas that didn't have written trouble reports?
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  2. It's not a matter of age, it's more about emotional stability and good cognitive skills, which this dude clearly lacks.
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  3. Some of the leaked data originated from six weeks ago. That's pretty damned contemporaneous.
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  4. What I've read is, the government didn't discover the leak, it was reported to them, by a high school gamer. He was the one who let people know the leaker had the handle OC. From there, it was easy for the FBI to determine his real identity. There was no search program, looking for matches between posted data and classified data. Did you expect them to grep all posted data? (And yeah, we've all read Knuth's Sorting and Searching, and know about hash tables. )
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  5. And a Communist sympathizer. Not a great comparison.
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  6. A 21 year old can be a computer wiz. I wrote my best, and most consequential code, when I was 26.
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  7. Indeed, genetic sequencing of the Portuguese, show about a third of their genetics trace back to Jews, forced to convert.
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