Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
by oskarth on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @02:58PM
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That's absolutely ridiculous. I assume the same didn't happen for Citizen Four (which was actually a real movie as opposed to a thinly disguised hit piece).
You should name and shame the company, even if you do so anonymously.
Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
by binfalse on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:27PM
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I don't know where OP worked but Yahoo 'treated' its employees to Fifth Estate. Everyone was given a ticket (or 2) to an afternoon showing at the Shoreline theater. And no, Citizen Four did not get the same treatment.
Any Googlers want to chime in?
Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
by jacquesm on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:07PM
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No, he doesn't have to name and shame any company. It's enough to know that such activities happen.
Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
by Lawtonfogle on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:13PM
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I'm not going to turn in the theif. It is enough to know that people will steal.
(The difference here being that in one case the government is the judge/jury/executioner and in the other it is the realm of public opinion.)
Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
by jacquesm on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:17PM
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No, it's not that. It's that it may very well be possible to trace this conversation back to a single person and that could easily jeopardize that persons employment.
Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
by Lawtonfogle on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:44PM
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That is a separate (and I personally think far more valid) argument. My protest was against the argument, not against the outcome.
Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
by Create on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:41PM
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We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.
This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.
> People who work on building surveillance, people who have done it, people who may do it in the future, are your classmates in your CS program, your colleagues in your startup, your neighbors, your fellow conference attendees, you.
Exactly. I wish more people here would realise this. The powers-that-be do realize this, and are concerned about it. I remember when the "Fifth Estate" movie came out (which was critical of Assange), everyone in our company (a large tech company that I won't name) was given free tickets (and the afternoon off) to go see it. First time ever we were given such free tickets; I wonder why?