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It seeming neat is the point. This is propaganda.

• matt4077 10y ago
  One could argue (although I'm not 100% sure if I actually believe in it) that making institutions such as GCHQ more attractive would actually help. Their pool of applicants must be starkly different in terms of ideology than other applicant pools (say: google), even though the requirements are similar. If they succeed in broadening their pool of applicants, ideological diversity would increase. That may make it more likely that objections such as yours are raised internally. (counterarguments: their productivity may rise quicker than their morals can, making the net effect negative, or the institution is stronger and changes the individual instead of the other way around)
  • johansch 10y ago
    Well, maybe one take-away from the Snowden movie - in case it's actually accurate - is that by recruiting traditional freedom-loving hackers there will be more potential whistleblowers in the future. Another disparate thought: The NSA we've seen so far appears to have been infinite reach, but with very limited analysis capability. E.g. they have have an army of humans trying to make sense of the mountains of data. Just imagine their capabilities when they have applied (already, perhaps) deep learning to this data feed. This is scary shit. Suddenly they will have a very deep profile on every connected individal on earth (like 75% by now?).
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• dimino 10y ago
  Yeah I mean it's totally "propaganda", but so what? Rarely is propaganda actually useful. Are "Swiss" army knives propaganda for the Switzerland military?