NSA to Launch 'No Such Podcast,'

Post by rockskon » Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 10:57 PM UTC

klabb3 wrote: post #19

twosdai wrote: post #16

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My Naive take: I think its apart of a media campaign to highlight the best parts of the agency to the public, which can be used for attracting talent, convincing voters that the agency is good, and convincing leaders the agency is necessary. Additionally, its also a defensive move against other powers that want to discredit the NSA and sway public opinion. Many security professionals talk about cyberspace being the n…

> Additionally, its also a defensive move against other powers that want to discredit the NSA and sway public opinion. That’s a really good point. I guess being proactive in establishing a good or at least plausibly good reputation is a great proactive measure to prevent say a future scandal from hitting them hard. Right now the narrative seems to be along the lines of “we did some questionable things in the past, bu…

But they're still doing those questionable things right now. They and the FBI openly fought to preserve the legal right to continue doing these constitutionally dubious actions!

Post by rockskon » Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 11:00 PM UTC

doctorpangloss wrote: post #11

giancarlostoro wrote: post #10

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> Why be one of the 100 people on ordinary salaries, forced to live in Maryland or Virginia, to toil on the mundane bureaucracy of a government agency, when you could be the 1 engineer at Google, paid 10x as much and who works 1h a day, that clicks the button to copy the access logs, emails and searches of the person of interest to the NSA instead? What you wanna do is be the guy they hire to work at a FAANG to sipho…

That’s what I’m saying, yes. I guess another way of putting this is, is the one year of Math 55, some of whose 12 students per year do an internship at the NSA, really that vital to the mission? Venture capitalists go out of their way, bending over backwards for the same people too. And the Math 55 kids get pushed out, people don’t like working for Math 55 kids all the same. The multi-billion dollar NSA budget is jui…

"willingly".

Just like you willingly walk to your car and willingly drive to work and willingly do your job.

Sure - you have the option of doing none of those things. No one is forcing you to do it.

But you won't make a meaningful living in society if you don't.

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