CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site

Post by bezoisevil » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

segmondy wrote: post #63

vowelless wrote: post #2

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…

The agencies don't care about degrees as much as they care for raw talent. Many years ago I was in vacation and was just talking about video games with some random dude, then pirating, how to reverse engineer and crack em and from there into buffer overflows and exploit. After our conversation, he told me works for the NSA and asked if I'll like to work for them. I asked about pay, and it was more than double what I…

Post by philwelch » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

C1sc0cat wrote: post #107

CalChris wrote: post #94

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If you qualify for a security clearance then you will qualify for jobs which require a security clearance. This means that you are basically recession proof. You will be competing (if that's an applicable word) against a smaller pool of applicants in a market (if that's an applicable word) which is protected by the full faith and credit of the US government. https://www.clearancejobs.com/

In the future I could see some senior job at FANGS requiring clearance - BT required DV for some team leader roles 20 Years ago

Post by Rebelgecko » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:52 PM UTC

bsamuels wrote: post #108

wil421 wrote: post #81

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Unless your an actual spy you could probably say you work at the NSA as an SE, linguist or something more mundane. I doubt you could talk about your actual work. I’ve known people with clearances at Govt contractors. They could say what they do, EE/ME for X project but not many details beside that.

When you work at the NSA, you are not allowed to say that you work for the NSA. Full stop. (Contractors are a different story for some complex reasons, but are still at risk) It's like this for many gov agencies working with intelligence because labeling yourself as an intelligence worker makes you a target for foreign intelligence agents. That may sound a little strange if you aren't part of that industry, but it is…

Post by sdinsn » Thu, May 30, 2019, 6:34 PM UTC

cyphar wrote: post #50

dragonwriter wrote: post #29

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The US government created Tor for intelligence purposes. So it being embraced by the US intelligence community is unsurprising.

The US Navy created the concept of onion routing . Tor was not developed by the US government, it was developed in public (by Roger Dingledine and the rest of the Tor community).

Post by FrightHorse » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

dmv_resid3nt wrote: post #59

vowelless wrote: post #2

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…

This sounds sill, but I have a really serious question -- how accurate are the Bourne type films w/r/t how things are at these three lettered agencies? If you are to believe even half the movies, it seems the workers are burned left and right as regular consequences of seniors' political battles. Is that how it is? I know this sounds silly, but i've been at big companies before (Fortune 10) and have seen some pretty…