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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by stickfigure on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @12:15PM (#9297464)
This thought exercise suggests that someone with an NSA background will have significant trouble straying far from government-connected "private industry" work.
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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by shitlord on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @12:50PM (#9297800)
Like Palantir or AWS?
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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by chinathrow on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:07PM (#9299502)
AWS, I'm interested. Care to explain a bit more?
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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by devonkim on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @10:17PM (#9301145)
GovCloud is pretty much AWS (I got the impression basically a separate DC, switches, racks, etc. - an airgap of some sort I guess) and is accredited for U//FOUO workloads, which is where a lot of work has shifted to make it easier for contractors that are having trouble clearing people to TS/SCI quickly as well as to be able to do some work on platforms outside of a SCIF.

Contrary to the prevailing popular opinion that defense is run by complete idiots, a lot of programs are run by extremely intelligent people... that have a litany of pressures that are completely contradictory that results in completely insane outcomes.

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