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Do you want to get your name on a list? Because that is how you get your name on a list.
by uniformlyrandom 8y ago
Do you want to get your name on a list?
Because that is how you get your name on a list.
- bigiain 8y agoI think you mean "another list"... Surely one more list wont make any difference, right? :sigh:
- joelhoffman 8y agoEventually you may end up on the list of people who are on a lot of lists? Seems suspicious.
- FridgeSeal 8y agoIs there also a list of lists that people who are on a lot lists are on?
- chihuahua 8y agoI want to be on the list of people who are not on this list
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- saalweachter 8y agoI think it's important to consider list lengths; the people on the list of people on short lists are going to have a lot more abnormal things happen to them, good and bad, than the people on the list of people only on long lists. I do wonder which is the longer of the two lists, though.
- marton78 8y ago... and, most importantly, does this list contain itself?
- thechao 8y agoLike a skip list. But for ... freedom?
- Scoundreller 8y agoNaw, we're all on a list. Where we rank is what matters.
- clort 8y agoI think this. I had a friend who formerly worked for military intelligence in the UK who asked once (to a group) if we thought we were on the GCHQ database. I said yes, I would likely be in there and when he asked why I gave my reason, which is that I once did something that relatively, very few people have done and thus I have marked myself as ahead of the crowd in some way since it is probable that the government became aware of that. My friend did not confirm or deny but acknowledged my contribution. I presume he would be forbidden from revealing operational details like this but these days I think that yes I am in the database because we are all in it. Its going to be a relational database and there is no single 'rank' as such but certainly accomplishments and connections are noted. If you speak <language> and they hear about that, they will note that. They might need a <language> speaker at short notice one day and you just happen to be there. They might need a person with a particular type and colour of car. They might need a pilot. All of these people are already available within the military but they might want somebody else. It is their job to keep tabs and I think they probably do it well.
- jinglebells 8y agoI think you're probably right, especially in the tech sector. If you've ever had a background check or security clearance or worked for any sort of agency which deals with crime or intersects with finance, aviation, military or any number of specialist sectors is probably enough.
- linkregister 8y agoThis is a compelling story that may be true for the UK, but there is no such list in the US. Sadly, recruiting for the intelligence community is probably around the same efficiency of your local state government. Recruiters go to college career fairs and review applications from the website. Most candidates are unqualified, crackpots, or both. A couple schools have professors that encourage students to work for agencies, so alumni from these schools are overrepresented in the IC. Occasionally, an outstanding person is identified and recruited, but this is rare. It is almost certainly driven by a person on the inside giving a referral. The recruiters have no bandwidth to be spending time pursuing candidates in any kind of targeted fashion.
- alexvoda 8y agoIs someone checking it twice?
- geezerjay 8y agoYes, apparently FTA it's the CIA's counterintelligence unit.
- MarsAscendant 8y agoSounds like OP's pissed and he's ready to slice... ...some of the NPCs that are in his way. (Yeah, there's another song that has "He's making a list, and he's checking it twice".)
- zrth 8y agoWhy care if one is on some list?
- gammateam 8y agoGotta boost your credit scores in China somehow!
- jnsaff2 8y agohttps://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-489-social_cooling https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-489-social_cooling or https://www.socialcooling.com/ https://www.socialcooling.com/
- uniformlyrandom 8y agoWell, if you think you are a non-conformist or a rebel for asking about a blogpost on NSA intranet, then I applaud you.
- 51lver 8y agodefeatist attitudes don't help anything for anyone.