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212 points ck2 | 1 comments | 30 Sep 13 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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ck2 ◴[30 Sep 13 12:51 UTC] No.6469267[source]▶

He might have been a pre-Snowden that didn't escape:

Williams was unhappy with his work environment at MI6 and felt he didn't fit in with his colleagues. During the inquest, testimony revealed that the coder had conducted unauthorised searches of an MI6 database

also: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/codebreaker-death/

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1. DanBC ◴[30 Sep 13 14:58 UTC] No.6469939[source]▶

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> Williams was unhappy with his work environment at MI6 and felt he didn't fit in with his colleagues.

He was on secondment from GCHQ. He might have been very happy with the work and environment at GCHQ. We don't know.

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Codebreaker found in bag attended US security conference before death (2012)