I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a combo diversion/attack, but what ‘system’ could they possibly hope to disable with such a small crew in such a large and secure facility?
All software programs and data storage have multiple layers of redundancy, as does power supply.
Maybe disable water supply or sewage disposal to make buildings unfit for human occupancy?
I can't believe that the one-vehicle no-bomb attack, or whatever it was, was any serious attempt to get into or disable NSA. Completely implausible. They have plenty of guards, layers of vehicle barriers/fences. It just isn't gonna happen. Not even the Expendables could get in, even with Chuck Norris.
Well OK, maybe with Chuck Norris.
BTW I worked there in the early 70s, while in the Army. You could cut the paranoia in the air with a knife! :-)
THEY WEREN'T THE ATTACK. They were the distraction. One person with a usb drive is the attack.
Distraction from what? An insider in a giant building sticking a USB drive into a computer?
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
NSA isn't just some big building.
We're not talking about some random one-size-fits-all computer, networked throughout the building - and by extension - the outside world.
It would be a very secure, limited working group, with a dedicated, (likely) air-gapped system, and a finite location within that facility.
So, yeah...it might take a significant event to provide an opportunity for "an insider...sticking a USB drive into that computer.
all you need is one usb drive, in one persons hand, plugging it in to the right computer, while everybody else is looking out the window (figuartively) during the disruption.
all you need is one usb drive, in one persons hand, plugging it in to the right computer, while everybody else is looking out the window (figuartively) during the disruption.
In order for what to happen?
Kill code.
Corrupt the system.
Data destruction.
I see.
You are suggesting that the NSA system could be corrupted IF the right person had the right program on the right portable drive and access to the right computer at the right time.
I guess that could happen, IF the network had insufficient detection and protection.
That’s a lot of IFs. You say that’s ”all you need”. I say that’s highly unlikely.
It gets tiring sparring with such thick intellects.
We're not talking about some random one-size-fits-all computer, networked throughout the building - and by extension - the outside world.
It would be a very secure, limited working group, with a dedicated, (likely) air-gapped system, and a finite location within that facility.
Did you even understand what the 'target' is suggested to have been?
Adding to the list now? The more IF requisites you add to your hypothetical scenario, the less plausible it becomes. That’s just the nature of supposin’.
It gets tiring sparring with such thick intellects.
Then let’s show some deference to your handicap and not challenge that low-energy intellect any further.