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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by whoopdeepoo on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:47PM (#34666920)
First we were looking for potential uranium deposits with satellite imagery. When that was no longer necessary we switched to identifying targets for aerial strikes. The imagery was pretty outdated but they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate.

I got the job through family, my uncle was able to get in the industry in the 80s.

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by rurp on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:54PM (#34667006)
> they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate.

I don't think that enabling capricious air strikes is the kind of work that is going to allay most people's ethical concerns.

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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by the_only_law on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:05PM (#34667122)
The nepotism involved probably isn’t available to everyone anyway.
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Re:NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy... by heyoni on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:47PM (#34673458)
> I don't think that enabling capricious air strikes is the kind of work that is going to allay most people's ethical concerns.

Seriously for a second I was like, maybe the NSA isn't such a bad idea anymore. They're out there making Ghidra and other open source tools so that's nice. And then I read this and immediately thought of that monologue from Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg

That's gonna be a no from me dawg.

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