NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree

Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by godelski on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:40PM (#34666826)

Why is it always framed as a verses conversation? This isn't helpful. It is quite possible that people don't like either form of surveillance. But let's also not pretend that surveillance capitalism is identical to a surveillance state.

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by goldfeld on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:52PM (#34666979)

  The NSA is a big old bitch,
  "so are your fangs and VCs"
  says the crowd who has the itch
  for cool projects but sees
  all really as prostitution. Stitch
  up the foul mouth hey, one who pees
  in the water is bound to filth drink,
  work, make, grow rich but don't think.

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by gizmo686 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:55PM (#34667017)

In the context of this thread, because we are talking about the NSA hiring laid-off Big Tech workers. The question at issue is not, in general, if people have a problem with Government surveillance. Rather, the question is if people who have built their careers around private surveillance have a problem with government surveillance.

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by antisthenes on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:09PM (#34667168)

Large capital is indivisible from the state. I'm not sure making that distinction serves any real purpose, because a government that doesn't regulate surveillance capitalism effectively makes its stance pretty clear about surveillance in general.

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