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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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