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I used to live near Fort Meade, and all our math PhD and linguist neighbors said they worked for the "Department of Defense."
by ksenzee 10y ago
I used to live near Fort Meade, and all our math PhD and linguist neighbors said they worked for the "Department of Defense."
- cperciva 10y agoI've heard that the official advice given to NSA employees is "If asked, say that you work for the DoD but aren't allowed to be more specific; do not lie or try to evade the question, since that will tend to attract even more attention."
- jonwachob91 10y agoThe DoD is the parent agency to the NSA, so it is the truth.
- type0 10y agoYeah, but that's a bit like saying "I'm from planet Earth" when someone asks you where you're from
- graycat 10y agoFort Meade? Not everyone living near there worked at Fort Meade! Fort Meade is east, across the street, the Baltimore Washington Parkway, from Laurel, MD, and my wife and I lived there. I worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) in the group that did the calculations for the Navy's version of the USAF's GPS, well before the GPS. But my work was in the fast Fourier transform, power spectral estimation, etc. of passive sonar signals. Mostly I was writing PL/I code for the 360/91, 60 ns cycle time, 8 byte wide, 16 way interleaved main memory. So, not everyone in that area worked at Fort Meade!