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CIA and Gen Z

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Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by LinuxBender »

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…

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.

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by mcguire »

LinuxBender wrote: post #31
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…

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.

I hope it's changed; you're not supposed to do that.(TM) But the military operates in its own little world in some respects.

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by mcguire »

keewee7 wrote: post #13

I'm Gen Z. Most Gen Zs are socialists (we actually know what it means) with a small minority of libertarians. Very few would want to work for the CIA.

Wait, I thought all the Gen Z's were living with their parents, unemployed, and desperate for an income to pay off their student loans.

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by Sanzig »

R0b0t1 wrote: post #9
Sanzig wrote: post #6

On Gen Z CIA recruits having pre-existing social media presences: > They’re shrewd enough either to be circumspect users of social media from the start or to review (and delete) old problematic tweets and posts. Is this particularly effective, though? Most social media sites have been scraped to hell and back - surely there's archives of the old problematic stuff. It must be tough working in counterintelligence these…

If you control the search engines you can just make it hard to find.

For a private OSINT investigator, sure. But a state-level actor (ie: the sort of groups that the CIA is supposed to butts heads with) could easily maintain their own mirrors.

Hell, if you have a few dozen terabytes of disk space you can download the entire plaintext archive of Reddit comments from Pushshift, regardless of if they've been deleted or not. And that's something a private citizen can do spending a couple grand on hardware. Do we really think that the Chinese Ministry of State Security or Russian GRU aren't keeping archives of Twitter and public Facebook posts for use as blackmail material down the line?

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Post by heyda »

This entire article reads like a paid advert, it's so hilarious

"Though you’d think a person accustomed to being super-active on the group chat would struggle with being separated from their phone all day, this analyst assured me, “The mission is so dynamic that you’ll rarely, if ever, be bored, and the longing for your phone and social media sort of dissipates.”"

ya... sure... if we ignore all the time waiting for meetings to start in a concrete box with no windows and nothing to do, or sitting in front of your computer for hours answering emails/dealing with paperwork.

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Post by humanwhosits »

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…

Seems like we should stop treating SSN user id like a password

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Post by walshemj »

keewee7 wrote: post #13

I'm Gen Z. Most Gen Zs are socialists (we actually know what it means) with a small minority of libertarians. Very few would want to work for the CIA.

I somewhat doubt that more like wet Tories (Eisenhower republican's)

There's a lot of "hobbyists" who think they are socialists

Re: CIA and Gen Z

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Post by handrous »

thereddaikon wrote: post #20
keewee7 wrote: post #13

I'm Gen Z. Most Gen Zs are socialists (we actually know what it means) with a small minority of libertarians. Very few would want to work for the CIA.

Actual socialists had secret police. Every government has intelligence services. What do you think being a socialist means and what does that have to do with working for the CIA?

Most folks throwing around "socialist" in a positive light in the US mean it like "social democracy", as in the Nordics or various European social-democratic parties.

The socialist-socialists—having known a few—usually just say Marxist or communist to describe their position, in my experience. "Socialist" only means "like Venezuela or East Germany" when a Republican is saying it, not when people self-describe as socialist.

[EDIT] and yes, to head it off, even Norway has intelligence services, sure—but they don't have Stasi.

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