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This is why you need layers of security. If passing a "lie detector" test gives you unfettered access to information that could potentially sabotage the governm

This is why you need layers of security. If passing a "lie detector" test gives you unfettered access to information that could potentially sabotage the government (to the point where foreign terrorists or governments would be interested in such information), then the system that secures said information needs to be changed. When you build a web application the cardinal rule is never trust the client, which should be the default assumption here, irrespective of the results of some pop-science "examination."

Bahamut 13y ago
It's not as simple as in software development - trust has to be given that people are acting in the best interests of the country, and people have to have access to sensitive information in the government. The only way you can secure against this is to control who you hire, and control as much as possible what they can do. To that end, sharing of this data is perfectly reasonable, as long as safeguards are in place for who uses the data, which is almost always there from my experience.
- swalkergibson 13y ago
  The fact that the list exists got out, so there are clearly not enough safeguards. Honest question coming. Do you subscribe to the "I have nothing to hide" notion?
  - Bahamut 13y ago
    I happen to have nothing to hide, and am not someone too concerned about others using data about me, but I also possess a security clearance & am a Marine reservist, so as someone involved with national security to a minor degree (I'm just a junior infantry rifleman in the Corps) & living in DC, I have some familiarity with the policies set on sensitive information & some insight into why things are done a particular way in the federal government. Civilian career-wise, I don't work for the government in any capacity & wouldn't want to (I'm a mid/senior web developer).
    - Zigurd 13y ago
      Can we all pitch in and buy this guy a certain book on eBay?
    - swalkergibson 13y ago
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

Bahamut 13y ago

It's not as simple as in software development - trust has to be given that people are acting in the best interests of the country, and people have to have access to sensitive information in the government. The only way you can secure against this is to control who you hire, and control as much as possible what they can do. To that end, sharing of this data is perfectly reasonable, as long as safeguards are in place for who uses the data, which is almost always there from my experience.

swalkergibson 13y ago
The fact that the list exists got out, so there are clearly not enough safeguards. Honest question coming. Do you subscribe to the "I have nothing to hide" notion?
- Bahamut 13y ago
  I happen to have nothing to hide, and am not someone too concerned about others using data about me, but I also possess a security clearance & am a Marine reservist, so as someone involved with national security to a minor degree (I'm just a junior infantry rifleman in the Corps) & living in DC, I have some familiarity with the policies set on sensitive information & some insight into why things are done a particular way in the federal government. Civilian career-wise, I don't work for the government in any capacity & wouldn't want to (I'm a mid/senior web developer).
  - Zigurd 13y ago
    Can we all pitch in and buy this guy a certain book on eBay?
  - swalkergibson 13y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...