Burn after reading

摘要

Before Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning brought data theft into the digital age, there was Jonathan Pollard. Mr Pollard was a naval intelligence analyst who in 1987 was convicted of supplying vast quantities of secret information to Israel. According to one report, the physical documents he stole would fill a room six feet by six feet by ten feet (about 5 cubic metres). So brazen was his theft that security guards held the doors for him as he moved papers to his car.