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CIA and Gen Z

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Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by mcguire »

wtf_is_up wrote: post #97
mjevans wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SSN is current the _defacto_, unplanned, person ID and somehow also password. I agree this is insane. A National ID, that is designed to more strongly prove ID and also designed to be used as a secure form of Authentication for Authorization services... THAT is what I'd really love politicians to approve. I'm currently in the process of upgrading my enhanced ID drivers license to a Passport (done) and then applying f…

This already exists and has been in use for over a decade in DoD. It would be great if it was extended outside of DoD. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card

It's common throughout the federal government, known as the PIV (Personal Identity Verification) badge/credential/whatever.

(Except possibly for JPL because a) they're not really part of NASA and b) they filed a lawsuit. (https://hspd12jpl.org/)

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by thatguy0900 »

novok wrote: post #115
geoduck14 wrote: post #108

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I have some relatives who spent a year or so in Russia. The husband is REALLY good with a Russian-style hand gun. And they often talk fondly of their time in Russia. (They also have slight political leanings toward Russia). I like to pretend they are KGB sleeper agents. I know they aren't, but I like to pretend it is true.

What makes you really good with a few models of pistols vs others that it stands out in significant ways? It's like saying "he is REALLY GOOD at driving ford mustangs" vs just driving cars.

Nothing, really, they probably just mean that he has a Russian handgun. There is some differences in sights and caliburs but not really to the extent you would claim to be a expert in one specific style.

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Post by Tanjreeve »

chrisseaton wrote: post #87
mcguire wrote: post #25

" When you pull up to the CIA headquarters in Langley, you have to shout your Social Security number out the window into a speaker, like when you’re ordering fries at a drive-through. Much like the Union that the Agency was formed to protect, the system, it seems, could be more perfect. " True story: I went to a job interview on Redstone Arsenal which meant I needed to get a vehicle pass. The recruiter sent me an ema…

I think your SSN is more like your user name than a password, so shouldn't matter to disclose it.

Yep. The issue is banks and financial companies using it as a master key.

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Post by MonkeyClub »

sneak wrote: post #104
stopagephobia wrote: post #94

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Can we cool it with the agephobic comments? Cia is going to have trouble finding enough such ppl who also meet agency requirements because they hire a lot of ppl and need more than 10 of them.

The fact that boomers are boomers is not agephobic. Young people do not behave like old people, or vice versa.

But often old people think back to how they behaved when they were young, and are embarrassed.

Young people never seem to get that, though, until their turn comes around.

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by RickJWagner »

I hope they have very thorough tests for leakers.

It seems pretty frequent these days when somebody decides their personal brand of politics warrants betraying information that would have been considered un-betrayable in earlier years.

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by geoduck14 »

novok wrote: post #115
geoduck14 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have some relatives who spent a year or so in Russia. The husband is REALLY good with a Russian-style hand gun. And they often talk fondly of their time in Russia. (They also have slight political leanings toward Russia). I like to pretend they are KGB sleeper agents. I know they aren't, but I like to pretend it is true.

What makes you really good with a few models of pistols vs others that it stands out in significant ways? It's like saying "he is REALLY GOOD at driving ford mustangs" vs just driving cars.

We went to the gun range with a handful of different guns. I don't remember what each of them were, but I do remember one had a hard trigger and aweful kick. It wasn't a pleasant gun for me to fire - and I wasn't very accurate with it. It was a Russian gun, and he was good at firing it.

This like saying he is "really good at driving Vespas"

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by bleuchase »

herbstein wrote: post #102
bleuchase wrote: post #99

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Great! We can tie in your Twitter account too so if you say something out of line or dangerous you can be banned from all of society.

I'm not even gonna entertain the implications brought here. I will however utilize this opportunity to say that every citizen has the right to interact with the government on equal footing. Elderly people without internet- and computer-expertise have, as before the technology explosion, access to "citizen services" that'll help them with everything. Including helping pay non-government bills if need be.

Sorry no clue what that has to do with my comment. Whether you choose to “entertain” this or not it’s being proposed by governments https://gizmodo.com/social-media-accounts-should-require-pro...

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Post by LinuxBender »

warner25 wrote: post #73
LinuxBender wrote: post #31

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Unless this recently change it is also standard practice in the military to write your SSN on your checks and show your SSN which is on your military ID to anyone at the BX/PX. We had to say our SSN every time visiting the chow hall.

Things have changed. We received a "Department of Defense ID Number" at some point to use wherever SSNs were previously used on paperwork, computer systems, etc. Even ID tags ("dog tags") now have your DoD ID Number printed on them instead of your SSN. Any document with SSNs must be encrypted in transit and stored/processed only by systems with special accreditation and access controls for Personally Identifiable Inf…

It is nice to see they are at least making an effort and moving in the right direction. This may be beneficial to those yet to join the services.

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Post by yencabulator »

whizzter wrote: post #93
ubercore wrote: post #91

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Just moved to Norway and it's been very eye-opening seeing how easy BankID (their equivalent) makes most things in life. Only problem has been that I'm 5 months in and still don't have my ID number so I'm locked out of most aspects of life still (can't even open a bank account).

Yeah, this is a recurring theme for immigrants in these countries (esp here in Sweden where the immigration agency has been backstopped since the big 2015 refugee influx). You can get a temporary "coordination ID" that healthcare,etc can use to register your journals but Bank's doesn't always let you create accounts without personal ID numbers (and specifically no BankID's so you're locked out of all the modern digit…

Same thing for expats. Lose your local bank account (because nobody wants to serve US residents), you loose the authentication mechanism, and now can't use any e-services, such as the official email.

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Post by bigger_inside »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #86
bigger_inside wrote: post #81

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yes, there's a curve here. My early online days were in the time of GeoCities, and later CollegeClub (anyone remember that?); I had pretty significant online presences then, but they're all gone. The Archive doesn't have them, and that was before everything was scraped. I'm fairly certain this is all gone. Then comes the intermediate period when everything was starting to be scraped, but nobody realized or cared; tha…

I missed the CollegeClub days but I think I still have an old Neopets profile, although I don't think there's anything too dangerous on there I could be blackmailed with...

I've left the "I could be blackmailed"-days behind me. There was a time when I was worried about what of me people could find online. Nowadays, it's "yes, that was me. Have fun with it."
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