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This old fucking chestnut again. I am a pentester for a living, and have been for 10 odd years. No, the answer is not because they smoke pot. The answer is beca
by morrbo 10y ago
This old fucking chestnut again. I am a pentester for a living, and have been for 10 odd years. No, the answer is not because they smoke pot. The answer is because governments across the world pay 30% of going corporate rates, and tend to be shitty environments filled with politics and work which most people of that persuasion might not agree with.
- dalke 10y agoWhat's worse is the article even says pot smoking is not a major issue, with (emphasis mine): "... the federal government is having a hard time hiring cybersecurity experts, largely because many hackers can find more lucrative deals that don't involve working for the feds. But there's another wrinkle: the FBI now says that its drug-testing policies are keeping experts off the payroll."