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Originally Posted by hiredgun
Sorry if this was already answered. Certainly the data was encrypted in transmission, but it gets decrypted at the other end.. for good reason, because the point is that people with the right to access this data (like the source of this leak) need to be able to read it.
Encryption only helps keep outsiders away from your data. If an individual 'inside' your encryption scheme wants to leak the information, there are no straightforward technical ways to stop him.
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That sounds like a crappy encryption scheme which is exactly what our government is using.
There are plenty of straightforward technical ways to stop this from happening again. First, they should be using Linux (the NSA released a version a few years ago), second, they just need to create a "classified" user type that has the ability to open secret or top secret files.
An example of it done badly is DVDs which had the encryption hacked, but HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays proved harder. It could be done.