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National Security Jobs To Rival Silicon Valley Over the Next 10 Years?
AHuxley writes "The Capital reports on a new cyber curriculum at a Maryland high school to feed the ever growing needs of the NSA and Cyber Command. A quote from Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) about job growth in the local national security sector stands out: '... in 10 years, there are going to be more tech jobs than Silicon Valley.' Could the new funding for the expansion of the National Security Agency and the Army's new Cyber Command be the next big growth area for the US?"
We do realize that national security "jobs" do not produce anything, don't we?
No, national security jobs do not produce goods or services. If they're next big thing, they'll probably be the last big thing too.
Does anyone else think this whole "cyber" thing has gotten out of hand? Someone needs to tell them that if they want to be taken seriously, they shouldn't use such a buzzword.
I think that's a cyberiffic idea!
I'm surprised you haven't been subjected to redicule for your title yet.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Without security, you're not going to grow very much before the next guy realizes he can grow by taking what's yours instead of inventing his own.
Considering that it's going to be a series of high school classes ... it doesn't matter because this is nothing more than a photo op. Politicians showing that they're "doing something" about "the threat".
The problem is NOT that we don't have people who understand security.
The problem is that those people's BOSSES do not care about security until AFTER someone cracks their systems.
I had a DARPA contract during my tenure at Pixar, before we got our first film contract. The purpose was to create economic demand for computer graphics hardware by making new advances in image-processing software, so that the U.S. would have that technology if it needed it for wartime. So, it ended up making live-action and old cel animated films look better, but served the economic purpose desired by DoD.
Bruce Perens.
The problem I see here is, that whereas Silly Valley jobs create wealth (and knowledge, infrastructure, etc) for the nation, defense jobs only consume wealth. Maybe that's part of the plan, tho... If we bankrupt the country with lavish expenditure on an oppressive security apparatus, we may just get rid of all our enemies. We'll no longer have wealth for anyone to envy, global influence for anyone to resent, or freedom for anyone to hate. Good plan, right?
...I feel less secure. It's probably just me.
um, have you seen facebook entries.
citizens don't have to spy on each other they will gladly tell you everything for a little perceived attention.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Yeah..... but what is valid? Who determines that?
If you are own your own property, or your own home, your desire to have privacy is inherently valid. Privacy and Anonymity are a human right. It is essential to freedom. Even if you want some sort of Utopian society where everything is open and shared, you still need to respect the individual that wants their privacy and recognize that is their right.
The challenge is that we have this erroneous belief that government determines our rights. It doesn't. It is supposed to provide *limitations* and enumerate its own rights. The Bill of Rights was a bad idea. We should have just agreed that we have the right to do ANYTHING. Flipped it on its head. Then the government should have come in and said, "Oh you can't say anything that would put the public in immediate danger like yelling fire! in a public space". Stuff like that.
If we had the Bill of Limitations then we would have far less arguments. The limits on our speech would have been very very specific. If the founding fathers had the idea that we should only possess the amounts and types of weapons to defend ourselves, but not at the same time pose a threat to government or law enforcement, they could have spelled that out.
Instead we have this system which ain't working out too well if you ask me. Not only were the specific rights they outlined, ostensibly to protect us, dwindling away into nothingness, the government has this idea that we have no rights except the ones they specifically give us and their rights are absolute and their mistakes are without consequence because everything is conveniently and ultimately in our best interests.
No.
Our desire for privacy is automatically and inviolably valid at all times.
Read Fahrenheit 451.
Teach? That's extreme wishful thinking.
This is going to be an indoctrination. Very similar to bootcamp. These soldiers will be broken down mentally and then rebuilt. What you learn in College or some sort of trade school rarely prepares you for the real world anyways. I am sure they will teach some basics, but the real meat will be the psychological indoctrination. Afterwards they will put them into production and they will receive hands on training.
How else are you going to get these people to ignore pesty things like due process and other so-called "rights"?