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> ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion How does one store links like this? You'd need a bookmark file, which would sort of give the game away, I'd have thought. How do you make sure you notice when you visit a URL with the same readable prefix?
I have a question for the HN audience. Many here have gone to top schools and studied crypto, ML, etc with the best. And are probably the best in their field. Do you currently work for any three letter agencies? Did your smartest colleagues go to work at three letter agencies? I am trying to gauge the quality of talent at CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. All of my best colleagues went to the private sector, usually tech or securi…
He began trash talking Edward Snowden within 60 seconds, and complained that anyone under 25 (pretty much the sole demographic present at the event) were averse to paperwork and would never make it in the "real world". He also uncannily romanticized doing paperwork and laughed aloud at the prospect of any employees doing any sort of creative work, saying that "engineers are just pencil pushers" (paraphrasing).
He mocked the media's representation of the NSA in a characteristically dissociative way, alluding to that he genuinely had no clue why the public perception of the NSA is what it is.
He finished it off by rambling about "quantum tunneling and metaphysics" (never knew the NSA was so interested in the works of Arthur Schopenhauer) and more or less begging the public at the event to come work for the NSA, saying they were desperately in need of talent.
Up until this experience, I had often considered the public perception of the NSA to be probably unrepresentative of reality, and my opinion could be summed up as "a big fan of Splinter Cell". Now, personally, I am entirely turned off to the prospect of employment with them.
Previously, I had envisioned that any issues within the agency could be remedied by new talent reforming internal policies, but I believe the problems that exist within it are pathologic, and I was enthusiastically informed that any position I had within the agency would be "pencil pushing", "paperwork", and a complete lack of creative fulfillment. What a way to kill prospective talent.
I have a question for the HN audience. Many here have gone to top schools and studied crypto, ML, etc with the best. And are probably the best in their field. Do you currently work for any three letter agencies? Did your smartest colleagues go to work at three letter agencies? I am trying to gauge the quality of talent at CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. All of my best colleagues went to the private sector, usually tech or securi…
I interviewed with Canada's CSE, an NSA equivalent but broke off the process once I had an offer with Amazon. The salary ranges at the CSE were so low that it would be over a decade before I made what Amazon was offering on day 1. I suspect my career income will be more than double.
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How do you get charged for leaks if you weren't the leaker?
How do you get charged with any crime without being guilty? It's not that uncommon an occurrence.
I have a question for the HN audience. Many here have gone to top schools and studied crypto, ML, etc with the best. And are probably the best in their field. Do you currently work for any three letter agencies? Did your smartest colleagues go to work at three letter agencies? I am trying to gauge the quality of talent at CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. All of my best colleagues went to the private sector, usually tech or securi…
I met with an NSA recruiter who was scoping out talent at a local hackerspace. It was one of the most awkward and out-of-touch experiences I ever had. He began trash talking Edward Snowden within 60 seconds, and complained that anyone under 25 (pretty much the sole demographic present at the event) were averse to paperwork and would never make it in the "real world". He also uncannily romanticized doing paperwork and…
Ask them for the NSA Sudoku books. They also publish crosswords. These are the only NSA documents Wikileaks wouldn't touch.
I have a question for the HN audience. Many here have gone to top schools and studied crypto, ML, etc with the best. And are probably the best in their field. Do you currently work for any three letter agencies? Did your smartest colleagues go to work at three letter agencies? I am trying to gauge the quality of talent at CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. All of my best colleagues went to the private sector, usually tech or securi…
He was the type who could do whatever put his mind to and had the determination to do it, Doctor, Lawyer, engineer whatever. Professions were probably to easy for him to do.
> ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion How does one store links like this? You'd need a bookmark file, which would sort of give the game away, I'd have thought. How do you make sure you notice when you visit a URL with the same readable prefix?
Cloudflare offers their DNS-over-https service at an onion address. In their documentation, they say:
"
Protip: if you ever forget the dns4torblahblahblah.onion address, you can simply use cURL:
curl -sI https://tor.cloudflare-dns.com | grep alt-svc
alt-svc: h2="dns4torpnlfs2ifuz2s2yf3fc7rdmsbhm6rw75euj35pac6ap25zgqad.onion:443"; ma=315360000; persist=1
"
It's a clever way, and standards-compliant, to distribute alternate onion addresses for existing services.
What I don't know is if Tor Browser Bundle has support for this natively, where if you visit tor.cloudflare-dns.com and it'll look for the alt-svc record and redirect you automatically to the onion address.
If it does, then you can just bookmark the regular URL knowing that you'll be redirected.
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Do they have the wrong guy or is “they don’t like you” == “commit espionage against the United States”?
There are lots of clues that indicates they have the right guy, or one of the guys. For intellectual honesty "commit espionage against the United States" is not the choice of words I'd use.
He may have thought he was serving some higher good, but that's hardly uncommon among spies.