His job was to find juicy tidbits in data scraped from external sources. His job was definitely NOT to find juicy tidbits in internal NSA documentation. The fact that he could easily and massively access this documentation without anyone seriously questioning his activities is a huge problem.
The assumption could be made that internal documentation and externally sourced data are stored on the same servers, and accessed using the exact same methods.

There is no possible explanation for this which doesn't involve the NSA having absolutely piss poor internal security.

You mean the "way of life" where we're free people, not spied on by a fascist government, and executed whenever we piss off the king/emperor? Yeah....that's been preserved REAAAALLY well...

FTFY.

First you said he "shared secret information with our enemies." Then, when it turns out you're demonstrably wrong, you change that to "sharing with anyone that is not cleared is a violation of the contract he signed."
Keep moving those goalposts. Maybe you'll eventually find something that works for you.

Hey, it's another "the government can do no wrong! Please, I want bureaucrats to penetrate my ass with probes on a daily basis! After all, I've done nothing wrong, so I have no reason to prevent the government from raping my ass!" shill!

Please explain why the NSA is "necessary." In fact, please explain what the NSA has to do with this story, as it's detailing Canada's illegal surveillance activities, not the USA's.

The NSA hasn't stopped a single terrorist attack. They've said so themselves. So hindering them doesn't do any harm to finding terrorists, either, but it does a LOT of good to our democratic and personal freedoms, which is what our two countries used to stand for and respect.

You, on the other hand, sound like you should be spouting propaganda about the Nazis, Stasi, KGB, or whoever, during their heyday, and how they're protecting the motherland from those "evil" capitalists.

Same methods, different enemy. And you're either falling for it hook, line, and sinker, or you're being paid to promote it. Either way, shut your festering gob, you twit.

It wasn't the "silo-ization" as you put it, that was the problem. From my memory, there were warnings to the FBI regarding the 9/11 terrorists, but they were ignored.

That being said, I don't give a damn if various agencies share data among themselves. It's all the same government, so they have the data....go ahead and use the data. (Sure, there are exceptions to that: eg. health data shouldn't be used by the police to place suspicion of drugs on you, so they can raid your house....etc.etc.)
However, they shouldn't be using data that they have no business collecting in the first place. That's where the problem comes from. It is not the government's concern who I call, and for how long I talk to them. Unless one of those people I talk to is suspected of a crime and is actively being investigated, with a proper, publicly accessible court approved warrant, then leave my call records the fuck alone.

From my understanding, it was Microsoft that was the bully here, and tried to take the trademark from BSkyB in court, but lost.

How do we know that the malware uses a domain name in the first place? Maybe it just uses the IP address, which of course, cannot be blocked by modifying the hosts file, regardless of what apk will tell you.

That does nothing to prevent your password from being sniffed.
However, like the GP, I've managed 8-10 MB/s to a Pentium 3 server on a 100Mb network, which is barely slower than FTP on the same hardware. It certainly loads the processor more than FTP does, so if you're trying to do multiple client connections on a Gigabit network with a low end processor in the server, you might slow things down. Maybe that's what your use case is?

There's "keeping the nation safe from a foreign invasion," and then there's "keeping individuals safe from an individual or small group of wackjobs."
The first is the job of the government. The second one isn't. They're trying to conflate the two, and take over the second, as well as the first.

The whole point of brute-forcing is that you don't need human evaluation. Are you really planning on a human evaluating the results from all 2^128 possible keys? How many universe lifetimes do you have to crack this thing?

Many of whom are twisting logic to unrecognizable proportions to support the NSAs activities. Where's the guarantee he would have got a sympathetic Member of Congress, rather than a "Wow. Let me look at these documents. I'm just going to go over to <somebody's> office to show them this revelation. Wait here." <30 seconds later, police burst into the office and shoot Snowden in the head for resisting arrest with a stapler>?

Considering they still don't know everything he took, I'm thinking you're giving the NSA a little too much credit, here.

Hahaha.. Good one! Oh..wait....you're serious?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

So all that national security classified shit is going to be paraded through an open courtroom? How naive are you? All the evidence against him will be classified, and conveniently, neither Snowden nor his lawyer, whoever that is, will be cleared to see it, so he most definitely will not be able to face the evidence presented against him. Once he can't face and challenge the evidence, anything else you claim also cannot be faced.

How come all the blind schmucks who keep claiming this are ACs? Is the cold_fjord account banned by too many people now? Seriously, everybody who claims the government broke no laws, and that court rulings have been in the NSAs favour, are all ACs.

You can say that again.....

So I'm guessing from your choice of words, that you're part of that corrupt government, then?
Sheesh. The training they give shills these days. It's like trying to get competent tech support from a foreign call center. At least make sure they know not to give away their position through a couple of pronouns....

That's exactly it, though. He sold out his government. Not the country. Not the citizens. Not anybody that actually matters in a "for the people, by the people" kind of country. He sold out a traitorous government to their bosses, the people.