Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma

David Hume writes "The Los Angeles Times has a story about the two-year University of Tulsa Cyber Corps Program. About '85% of the 260 graduates since 2003 have gone to the NSA, which students call "the fraternity," or the CIA, which they call "the sorority."' 'Other graduates have taken positions with the FBI, NASA and the Department of Homeland Security.' According to the University of Tulsa website, two programs — the National Science Foundation's Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service and the Department of Defense's (DOD's) Information Assurance Scholarship Program — provide scholarships to Cyber Corps students."

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Re:Oklahoma is awesome

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

What a fascinating way for the US to innovate its way out of stagnation: with incentives to joint the secret police!

There's never been a an economic miracle of productivity and social rewards, like that which has come from diverting skilled students away from developing a market - and into the state security apparatus.

Or, maybe not?