Is it really just pot? Theirs the dress code, the location, the secrecy, the bureaucracy, etc. The entire culture of the FBI is the polar opposite of typical hacker culture.
The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (2014)
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#22Is it really just pot? Theirs the dress code, the location, the secrecy, the bureaucracy, etc. The entire culture of the FBI is the polar opposite of typical hacker culture.
Hacker culture in the mainstream workforce doesn’t exist, it’s SV and VC culture. Free food and casual dress doesn’t change that. The word hacker is thrown around a lot, as in the title of this site, but like this site it’s just a name.
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#23The reason they can't hire is because it is illegal and opens you up to be compromised. It's that simple. Drug dealers can put you, your family, and work in a shitty situation because they need more money because of something happening to them. The risk is too high for law enforcement. Once Congress changes the law they won't give a shit.
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#24The so-called "cybersecurity experts" main task in the FBI is probably running forensics on narcotics traffickers' devices and data. Using illegal drugs would be a conflict of interest.
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#25> I don't want young people to use marijuana. It's against the law. We have a three-year ban on marijuana. I did not say that I'm going to change that ban. I said I have to grapple with the change in my workforce. Do I think pot should be illegal because it already is illegal, and I'm appealing to an existing authority, or do I have a concrete argument as to why it should be illegal? Why should the opinion of any one…
"this man" is a cog in the machine, not the person who gets to decide what policy is. Because there is no such single person, it's a matter of laws passed by Congress.
While true, I think it is also too easy for any one cog to "forget" to oil itself at the start of the day.
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#26Is it really just pot? Theirs the dress code, the location, the secrecy, the bureaucracy, etc. The entire culture of the FBI is the polar opposite of typical hacker culture.
Hacker culture in the mainstream workforce doesn’t exist, it’s SV and VC culture. Free food and casual dress doesn’t change that. The word hacker is thrown around a lot, as in the title of this site, but like this site it’s just a name.
It's not just sv, I would include most tech driven companies. Microsoft and Amazon come to mind.
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#28Weed kills motivation, hopes and dreams, and limits potential. This is true, but not universally for everyone. Some people truly do function better stoned, even perpetually as many hackers apparently are. Numerous studies suggest clearly that long-term marijuana use reduces IQ. Perhaps in the future we'll have customized DNA-derived profiles that accurately tell whether someone is better doing no weed, lots of weed,…
You know your audience, well: they supplied the downvotes, but no contrary bibliography.
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#29When I was in college, I interviewed for an internship with the CIA. The 2012 interview was for a 2014 summer internship, and they told me I couldn’t smoke pot between now and then. Given how many talented coders I knew at Stanford who had smoked pot at least once in a year, that seemed insane to me. Instead, I went to work at Apple where people practically smoked in the office.
Given everything that we know the CIA does and has done, why did this seem like a respectable job to you? I assume you wouldn't work for organized crime. EDIT> There's a darker part of me that would enjoy working for an intelligence agency, but I acknowledge that it's not a better part of my nature. Even if you aren't doing the torturing, or assassination, you're directly aiding the organization that is.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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#30FBI is shooting itself in the foot with these sort of policies. I can understand not wanting to hire someone smoking weed on the way to an interview, but in your spare time? What about all the law enforcement staff who abuse alcohol? Alcohol's been proven to be a more dangerous substance but Congress and the scheduling system are still opposite of the data. They act like hiring those who occasionally partake in canna…
Well it's against the (Federal) law, right? And it's your job to enforce the law. Pot bans may not make sense, but it's tricky if you start openly ignoring a law. I mean it's not like they get people's personal data without a warrant or anything. :)
> I mean it's not like they get people's personal data without a warrant or anything. :)
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