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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by smacktoward on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:52PM (#12338466)
> While the tech industry like to cast aspersions about the FBI and how idiotic they are, I think this perception is wrong. I don't think they could possibly have access to the resources they do and be stupid.

I responded to an FBI call for recruits to staff up their cybercrime divisions after 9/11, and was in their recruitment pipeline for two and a half years.

Based on my experiences during that period, I have no problem believing that they are stupid.

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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by HillRat on Monday August 22, 2016 @06:21PM (#12339875)
>I responded to an FBI call for recruits ... and was in their recruitment pipeline for two and a half years.

Dude! Just nine more months and they would have completed your SSBI and you could have been forwarded to the next stage!

God, it's like you don't want to put your life on hold for multiple years while an impersonal bureaucracy methodically sorts through your entire personal history.

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