CIA and Gen Z

The full title:

The CIA Is Trying to Recruit Gen Z—and Doesn’t Care If They’re All Over Social Media

> One would think it’s basically impossible to get millennials and zoomers into covert jobs. The youngest of this bunch of young people have spent their entire lives online, some since their parents blasted out their first ultrasound picture as a pregnancy announcement, before they’d even gained sentience.

> how exactly are you supposed to achieve this level of anonymity when you’ve flung untold reams of identifiable content across the digital world?

Assuming that that applies to every single Gen-Z or Millennial is the most "OK Boomer" stereotype ever

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 days - social media has greatly increased the attack surface for blackmail.

I don't think the article was trying to state that's the case for every millenial or Gen-Z, just that it's true for a wide swath of them. I'd say that's generally accurate.

Hiding in plain sight, anyone?

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