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Re:Hundreds of workers at cybersecurity agency vote to strike by rishabhd on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @11:42PM (#26259783)
Probably an unpopular opinion, but doesn't it exposes workers to OPSEC issues? I mean, if it is a strike, there must be a way to identify how is it being organized/ co-ordinated via some social media/ messaging apps leaving them wide open for other nation state actors to identify who-n-who of CSE. That is assuming CSE employees are not profiled actively before this.
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Re:Hundreds of workers at cybersecurity agency vote to strike by ygjb on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:34AM (#26260330)
Sure maybe, but then again, from the article:

The Public Service Alliance of Canada represents 2,400 employees working in cryptography, applied mathematics, advanced language analysis and cybersecurity at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE).

I think some of those 2,400 union dues paying members might have taken steps to make sure they were doing things in a way that is reasonably secure... I do wonder how many other unions have that many folks able to help out.

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Re:Hundreds of workers at cybersecurity agency vote to strike by MattGaiser on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @11:55PM (#26259851)
They have over 100 employees listed on LinkedIn. I am not sure employment there is all that secret.
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Re:Hundreds of workers at cybersecurity agency vote to strike by viraptor on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:43AM (#26260084)
The people who need to stay secret are likely paid enough. Most of the standard workers don't need to be secret. You can find them in presentations online, and other places.
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