Re:Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies
by celticninja on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:06PM
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But now you have a dozen or more people who know what's happening and we all know, three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Re:Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies
by marcus_holmes on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:26PM
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I'm not sure the point is actually to keep it secret, but (as with all government "services") to cover the arse.
Also, if you were an employee in a company in this situation, and you'd been told that the security of the nation depended on your silence, and more to the point, you'd be locked up and your career ruined if you went public, what would you do? Whistleblowers are pretty rare, because the consequences of doing that are huge.
Re:Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies
by alfiedotwtf on Saturday December 08, 2018 @08:28PM
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It also applies to former employees. Yes, you can be asked to hack into previous job's systems
Look at it from their point of view... they approach some developer and it's amateur hour. The dev might get stroppy, there's all sorts of infrastructure problems, they might not do it right... it's a mess.
But if they approach the CEO, it gets done right. The CEO brings in Legal, who promptly shit themselves. They bring in the CTO, who is told to shut up, sign this NDA, and work out how to make this happen as fast and painlessly as possible. No problems, the bad things get done, no-one gets told anything, all good. Shit continues to roll downhill...