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A comment on The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (2014).

Re:The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They A... by jenthoven on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:33PM (#16654043)
When I was in college, I interviewed for an internship with the CIA. The 2012 interview was for a 2014 summer internship, and they told me I couldn’t smoke pot between now and then. Given how many talented coders I knew at Stanford who had smoked pot at least once in a year, that seemed insane to me.

Instead, I went to work at Apple where people practically smoked in the office.

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Re:The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They A... by labster on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:37PM (#16654058)
What if we, like, made a phone that was entirely glass? That would be so fucking cool, man.
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Re:The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They A... by jMyles on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:59PM (#16654179)
...inside joke or something?
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Re:The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They A... by drharby on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:48PM (#16654426)
No, he is exhibiting humor.
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Re:The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They A... by JabavuAdams on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:59PM (#16654175)
Given everything that we know the CIA does and has done, why did this seem like a respectable job to you? I assume you wouldn't work for organized crime.

EDIT> There's a darker part of me that would enjoy working for an intelligence agency, but I acknowledge that it's not a better part of my nature. Even if you aren't doing the torturing, or assassination, you're directly aiding the organization that is.

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Re:The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They A... by iggg on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:06AM (#16657619)
You are funding that organization with your taxes. Don't tell me you have no choice. You always have a choice.
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