It’s fun to imagine the spy games that must have been involved in Edward Snowden’s exposure of the NSA’s massively invasive surveillance techniques. But, as NBC reports, a lot of that information came the way you might snoop on your significant others’ email: He stole some poor sap’s password.
The report cites a recently revealed memo (PDF) that claims Snowden convinced a civilian employee with a higher security clearance to enter his password onto Snowden’s computer. A password that Snowden swiped, and used to gain access to classified information. The duped employee, according to NBC, has since resigned.
The memo also sheds more light on previous reports that Snowden had used the passwords of NBC]