Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A.

Re:Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. by azinman2 on Sunday November 12, 2017 @02:47PM (#15682270)

There’s a massive pay disparity between public and private, and those currently in power want to keep it that way and eat away even more at gov functions. That combined without a clear rallying call for public service (like the Cold War or collective pride) are a recipe for disaster.

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Re:Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. by somnolentsam on Sunday November 12, 2017 @04:47PM (#15682798)

There is a big pay disparity, but the main thing is that engineers and other technical types have gone from having a big say in how problems get solved to being the problem itself. No amount of pay is going to retain people in those circumstances, except possibly those you don't want to retain.

As far as money is concerned, NSA is way overfunded - it just spends money on the wrong things and wastes lots of resources due to inefficiency.

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Re:Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. by jorblumesea on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:05AM (#15684614)

I'm not even sure it's just pay. The govt is extremely inefficient and bureaucratic. If your thing is writing code, why go to a place like that? You'd spend half your day writing memos and wrangling red tape.

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Re:Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. by milofeynman on Sunday November 12, 2017 @03:12PM (#15682407)

Until this is fixed we'll continue to be reliant on Israel intelligence

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