"I'm skeptical that there's zero background checking involved" You shouldn't be. Just yesterday it was essentially revealed Amazon does not do background chec

"I'm skeptical that there's zero background checking involved" You shouldn't be. Just yesterday it was essentially revealed Amazon does not do background checks (at least not on Education)[0]. One of the governments contractors for background checks (including Snowden) was charged for defrauding the government on 660,000 checks[1] (and many if not all of these are for security clearances). [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600716 [1] - http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the-administration/221416-is-debarment-in-the-cards-for-usis http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the-administration/22...