Hah! I was asked to join this multiple times and I refused because they do an FBI background check. Not that I have anything to hide, employers already do a bac

Hah! I was asked to join this multiple times and I refused because they do an FBI background check. Not that I have anything to hide, employers already do a background check but I didn't like volunteering to let the government be part of the equation as part of my day to day stuff and I hear they dig around quite a bit. Other similar orgs vet by simply asking someone at your org to vouch for you (a popular example is virustotal). In europe these orgs are -CERT and in the US they are -ISAC for those who don't know (industry specific intel sharing) but Infragard is all encompassing as an org to share intel between FBI and private sector. I can't imagine it would be much use. Targeted phishing maybe using this list? But then again people on the list are the most likely folks to be best trained and aware against phishing. On the other hand they would alsobe likely to have privileged accounts at their org. I don't think the breach is a big deal other than showing a weakness in the FBIs vetting process.