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Defense Department Eyes Hacker Con For New Recruits
alphadogg writes "The US Air Force has found an unlikely source of new recruits: the yearly Defcon hacking conference, which has been running since Thursday in Las Vegas. Col. Michael Convertino came to Defcon for the first time last year, and after finding about 60 good candidates for both enlisted and civilian positions, decided to come back again. Federal agencies have only recently begun embracing the hacker crowd. When US Department of Defense director of futures exploration Jim Christy hosted his first Defcon 'Meet the Fed' panel in 1999, he was one of two people onstage. At this week's Defcon, there may be several thousand federal employees in attendance, he said."
There is no real "government" to fight anymore; the Federal govt in the US is just the administrative arm of the corporate oligarchy. We're all screwed.
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In fact, you're not far from reality, they use America's Army, for that...
Segmentation Fault in "Life, Universe and Everything" at line 42. Don't Panic.
If you signed such a form, you obviously didn't read it. It is not a contract, and it does not have any legal weight as a contract. All that the form says is that you are aware that you are bound by existing laws which protect official secrets. If you don't sign, you are still bound by exactly the same laws, but if you do (and you generally need to, although they forgot to have me sign mine for a couple of months) then you can't claim ignorance of the law in court (which isn't a defence, but may lead to a reduced sentence).
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You obviously aren't in the military. Trust me, there is no mind-crushing mentality in any branch save possibly the marines. In fact, most good supervisors encourage lateral thinking from junior level enlisted men, and I don't know a single Master Chief (I'm Navy) who hasn't told that story of the Seaman who saved the day by saying something didn't seem right.
Independent thinking, smart people are exactly the type of folk we want in the military, not brain-dead puppets. The military does a heck of a lot more than serve as cannon fodder in the middle east.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
The American educational system isn't for training patriots. It was designed to train an underclass of factory workers.
It's a little out of date. :\