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by bazillion 12y ago
I took the DLAB (Defense Language Aptitude Battery) along with all of the other military students who went to DLI (Defense Language Institute). DLI is without a doubt the most intense language school in the world, where you have to go from
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by bazillion 12y ago
I can't seem to find the link that said this, but I believe the 1700's-1800's version of our modern use of the word "literally" was "veritably". They used it in the same ways we do when we use it the inco
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by bazillion 13y ago
I spent four years in (2 years longer than the OP), but worked on a substantially broader swath of intelligence areas and in much more policy-oriented positions, and I can tell you that the vitriol that's been displayed on HackerNews i
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by bazillion 13y ago
While I definitely agree with the unix philosophy in a lot of circumstance (thanks for linking that by the way -- have never seen that article) for the smallest common denominator programs that we can make, the typical program nowadays that
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by bazillion 13y ago
Highly incorrect. NSA success is measured through a reporting system that tracks which reports are cited in other reports, and which reports get used in briefs (and the relative level of brief). This mechanism is used to determine the rel
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by bazillion 13y ago
I've been using jqGrid for a couple years now, and have been able to make it do everything I've ever needed. It is full of its own quirks, and probably hasn't been updated in a long time, but it definitely got the job done f
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by bazillion 13y ago
Oversight is definitely the key to limiting the possibility of government overreach, but it is wrong on the populace's part to think that just because they aren't privy to the oversight that it isn't there. There is much the
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by bazillion 13y ago
I can understand the public outrage over what the implications are for things that have been circulated in the press. The author, however, is guilty of a very terrible error in my opinion -- he has walked the halls of Ft. Meade and seen ho
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by bazillion 13y ago
Thanks for that. I don't see them as whistleblowers, because their actions stand in contrast to Ellsberg. For one, neither of them tried to go to a higher authority to report wrongdoing -- that is the very first thing that a potential
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by bazillion 13y ago
>1) It's not only elected officials who've abused their power. Employees of the FBI are not elected by citizens and the citizens have little power to change the makeup of the organization. See http://www.washingtonpo
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by bazillion 13y ago
Yeah =( Even though I absorb a lot of the privacy anger going on right now, I feel it's my duty to bring a voice that is knowledgeable about the subject matter, and try to eliminate a lot of the misinformation that is floating around
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by bazillion 13y ago
>Your unsubstantiated claims do not constitute "proof". Anybody can claim to have worked for the NSA. And, if anything, for anyone to "out" themselves as former NSA, strikes me as fairly suspicious, since ex-NSA peopl
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by bazillion 13y ago
I'm going to stick my neck out a little and say that the reason for this line is this: I don't believe in the veracity of the leaked documents detailing PRISM. As I'm not in there anymore, this is not a confirmation of anyth
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by bazillion 13y ago
Yes. That's basically like saying that you're culpable for a crime because the person who lived in your house before you committed a crime. The people who were in office and committed illegal acts decades ago are not the same pe
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by bazillion 13y ago
Ok, here we go. >You aren't the voice of reason. You're the guy with his fingers in his ears and his eyes closed. You are the worst possible neighbor to have in a democratic society. Until you are directly and personally affect
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by bazillion 13y ago
Breath of fresh air -- while everyone is busy trying to tear apart what I said (even though I've worked in the NSA, CIA, and with the FBI and consider myself a credible source), you, sir, have your facts correct. What all of the anti-N
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by bazillion 13y ago
1. What does that prove? That the metadata for your phone number is collected? 2. Except that wasn't true, it was the former employer: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/pressure-cooker/ 3.
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by bazillion 13y ago
It's still illegal to collect on her...she's a US citizen with no ties to terrorism.
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by bazillion 13y ago
Going to go ahead and be the voice of reason and state that: 1. The NSA does not keep a "file" on you. Domestic matters are the FBI's territory. The NSA is tasked with strictly foreign surveillance. If information is cont
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by bazillion 13y ago
"There is no evidence that the FISA Court and NSA programs are effective. Mass surveillance did not prevent tragedy in Boston or aid in identifying those responsible." I think this part very much weakens your argument and should b
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by bazillion 13y ago
All of the truly remarkable intelligences I met, I met at NSA. There are certainly people that aren't (as with any organization), but the NSA is probably the only meritocracy in the USG. The pipeline for advancement is one of either
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by bazillion 13y ago
Please re-read what I wrote and what I responded to. It was a post which was being downmodded because people didn't agree with his opinion, and I was opposing those who were suppressing his opinion. As in, those that were downmodding
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by bazillion 13y ago
Seeing this post made me very happy, actually. I've commented before about my perspective in the NSA and doing government work, but immediately get showered with downvotes because I have a point of view that differs from what other pe
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by bazillion 13y ago
Ok, you guys are kind of blowing this way out of proportion. This is absolutely standard -- whenever classified information is disclosed unintentionally, you aren't allowed to discuss it in a non-secure compartmented facility. There
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by bazillion 13y ago
XKEYSCORE is just a Java front-end GUI, not servers/backend databases.
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by bazillion 13y ago
To be fair, he said the Redskins were going to win.
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by bazillion 13y ago
While Company A copying Company B might work in theory, there's still the matter of whether or not Company B has access to the source code (assuming Company A didn't open source the thing they spent all that time on). In a hardwar
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by bazillion 13y ago
There are plenty of kneejerk reactions to what has been put out in the news lately, but actions like this equally bypass a necessary public debate. Without sufficient knowledge of what is actually transpiring, the American public isn'
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by bazillion 13y ago
While getting into specifics of collection shouldn't necessarily be public discussion, as it renders those collections effectively useless (think the old school mafia knowing what they can and can not say to be rendered into evidence i

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