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Quit the NSA and skip the middle man by working directly for any number of the corporate benefactors of economic spying! Ideally bring your specific industry sl

Quit the NSA and skip the middle man by working directly for any number of the corporate benefactors of economic spying! Ideally bring your specific industry sleuthing expertise, right down to an intimate knowledge of office politics. Continuing with my unserious tone... if I was a single and overworked at the NSA I'd consider digging into the lives of future office co-workers and finding myself a wife after flipping through her 23andMe, any medical records, personality testing performed by a professional, dental hygiene, potential in-law difficulties and I guess bank account. That's how an intelligence worker makes an effective exit.

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lern_too_spel 11y ago
Obtaining those records would be just as illegal if you worked for the NSA as it would be if you worked for McDonald's.
- caskance 11y ago
  But probably the McDonald's employee would have a lot more difficulty committing this crime.
- walshemj 11y ago
  And you'd get busted - you don't think the CIA NSA don't have internal controls.
  - beeboop 11y ago
    Didn't Snowden get his documents without leaving a trail? There are several other articles saying their internal controls are/were very poor.
    - walshemj 11y ago
      I suspect they are stricter now - and I though Snowden socially engineered his way around some of the bariers. And I suspect actual access to the live data might be more locked down. Snowden seems to have harvested a load of docs about the process but not that data.
      - XorNot 11y ago
        ^This. There is an awful lot of perception of what Snowden got that in no way lines up with the presented reality.
      - pluma 11y ago
        You hire for the smartest tech whiz and then try to restrict what they can do via internal controls. Yeah, I can totally see that work.
- flycaliguy 11y ago
  I read that NSA workers find nude photos and share them with others in the office. According to Snowden, the auditing is weak and this is considered a "fringe benefit" of working there. http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/17/nsa-nude-photos/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/17/nsa-nude-photos/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/edward-snowden-video-interview http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/edward-sn...

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lern_too_spel 11y ago

Obtaining those records would be just as illegal if you worked for the NSA as it would be if you worked for McDonald's.

caskance 11y ago
But probably the McDonald's employee would have a lot more difficulty committing this crime.
walshemj 11y ago
And you'd get busted - you don't think the CIA NSA don't have internal controls.
- beeboop 11y ago
  Didn't Snowden get his documents without leaving a trail? There are several other articles saying their internal controls are/were very poor.
  - walshemj 11y ago
    I suspect they are stricter now - and I though Snowden socially engineered his way around some of the bariers. And I suspect actual access to the live data might be more locked down. Snowden seems to have harvested a load of docs about the process but not that data.
    - XorNot 11y ago
      ^This. There is an awful lot of perception of what Snowden got that in no way lines up with the presented reality.
    - pluma 11y ago
      You hire for the smartest tech whiz and then try to restrict what they can do via internal controls. Yeah, I can totally see that work.
flycaliguy 11y ago
I read that NSA workers find nude photos and share them with others in the office. According to Snowden, the auditing is weak and this is considered a "fringe benefit" of working there. http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/17/nsa-nude-photos/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/17/nsa-nude-photos/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/edward-snowden-video-interview http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/edward-sn...