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Yes. It’s also hard not to, given the revolving door and the incestous nature of the industry.
by garmaine 9y ago
Yes. It’s also hard not to, given the revolving door and the incestous nature of the industry.
- QAPereo 9y agoBesides, just rejecting all of their advice makes you as easy to manipulate as following all of their advice.
- yuhong 9y agoI like to mention how the NSA is funded by government debt in the current debt-based economy. Which basically means that the more it spends, the more dollars gets printed.
- tptacek 9y agoThere is no "revolving door" between the industry and NSA, or really between the industry and any part of the USG. This is something you've made up.
- garmaine 9y agoI actually work in this space, and yes it is often the case that you find people on standards bodies with prior experience at major government IT contractors with classified gaps in their CVs, and/or former private sector people who rotate into those same government contracting positions. These also tend to be the people making more ... weird ... proposals that are likely backdoors.
- tptacek 9y agoPoint to one of such proposal, and we'll look at the resume.