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cryptography would fall under TS/SCI through an intelligence agency or the DoD. Q is actually pretty narrow
by starwind 5y ago
cryptography would fall under TS/SCI through an intelligence agency or the DoD. Q is actually pretty narrow
- klyrs 5y agoI knew some number theorists at the NSA who claimed have Q clearance (long before QAnon was a thing). As far as I know, they know nothing about nukes. Have I been punked, or is the NSA a branch of the DoD?
- starwind 5y agoThis is pure speculation: if someone worked on some kind of communication involving nuclear missiles, they might work for the NSA and have Q. But otherwise I can’t think of a reason they would. That said, NSA is a world almost wholly unknown to me
- klyrs 5y agoWhat I know: clearance is compartmentalized. The NSA's mandate is both to break foreign crypto, and protect sensitive communication. That includes, possibly, the means to break domestic communication about, well, anything, including nukes. The laws and policies regarding this are, themselves, secret. There's even a secret court. The existence of these secret courts and secret laws has recently been affirmed as legitimate by the supreme court. So, no shit you're speculating, and I very well may have been lied to by the person attempting to recruit me to the NSA. I didn't want to live in secrecy; soon thereafter, Thomas Drake's reports confirmed my suspicion that the NSA wasn't as white-hat as I'd been told.
- QuarterReptile 5y agoI don't fully follow your comment or necessarily know what you mean by a "branch", but the NSA is explicitly part of the DOD.