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NSA employees offered deferred resignation, early retirement
- bediger4000 2y agoThis will not turn out how Musk, Trump, Republicans and conservatives think it will. Remember the "Canadian Pharmacy" spamming 2000-2010? Right after the Soviet Union collapsed and all their spies and hackers were out on the street, with no prospects of a good job.
- thatguy0900 2y agoI would think anyone employed at nsa would be able to get private cybersecurity jobs, no?
- talldayo 2y agoI'm sure NSO Group would love that sort of talent.
- bediger4000 2y agoNot if there's no federal or insurance company mandate. Also, you're assuming that there's a market for rootkits/implants, and "tailored access operations", rather than incident responders and checklist reviewers, which is what the giant bulk of corporate cyber security involves.
- throwaway5752 2y agoOh, there is certainly a market. That is why you keep them employed as whitehats, or at least in service of state security.
- tomohawk 2y agoAfter the Vietnam war, in the 1970s, there was a big RIF (reduction in force) at places like the NSA. These agencies have not had a reduction since then and are oversized and wrongly sized. The same issue faced the US Army prior to WWII. Roosevelt's solution was to find a young general (he found Marshal) and have him get rid of the dead wood because it was expected we'd be in a war in a couple of years. Marshal created the "plucking commission" and got rid of a lot of dead wood. This put the US in a much better position to fight a war.
- dttze 2y agoThe US is in no position to fight a war, regardless of supposed "dead wood". This is just a purge and further attempt to weaken the state intelligence apparatus.