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Re:Booz Allen Hamilton hiring quantum information physicist by philar on Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:44PM (#5966909)
Why? This isn't a case of some shadowy organization actively trying to spy on americans, a la HBGary. BAH had a contract to support netops and hired Snowden. Not exactly the same thing Barr did as CEO.
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Re:Booz Allen Hamilton hiring quantum information physicist by pvnick on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:04PM (#5966979)
I'm not advocating or encouraging the hacking (I'd like to think I'm smarter than that). I'm saying for the case of the national discussion happening at the moment regarding government contractors carrying out national security jobs, I would be interested to see the response of folks like Feinstein, who publicly discussed limiting contractor access [1]. If contractors aren't trusted with secrets, the outcome plays right into Assange's theory of the locking down of information and subsequent paralysis of an authoritarian conspiracy [2].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/feinstein-eyes-limi...

[2] http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

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Re:Booz Allen Hamilton hiring quantum information physicist by philar on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:07PM (#5966989)
I agree that it would likely yield an interesting discussion. The fact is federal contractors are responsible for almost all cases of espionage in the past 10 years.

Good links too.

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Re:Booz Allen Hamilton hiring quantum information physicist by CamperBob2 on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:51PM (#5967140)
BAH had a contract to support netops and hired Snowden.

Ah, the modern version of the Nuremberg defense. "It was in the contract."

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