AC a person can drive but in some states the driver and passenger will be captured using roadside CCTV.
An American would have a valid passport and enjoy their flight to and from the USA.
All part of a long term political plan to attract any workers.
The UK worked really hard after the many 1930's-1970's security issues.
By the 1970's they had finally worked out how to attract staff, keep staff and ensure staff stayed loyal.
New efforts are more about party political requests to just hire more staff. Any applications have to be considered. Staff to be considered on topics other than security, merit and loyalty. Security issues might again not be a reason not to give someone a job in the "security services".
So a lot of effort is now been made to attract people to gov work but other nations, faiths will also use the new hiring practices.
The UK had great success in the 1970-90's in Ireland as it had perfect collection security.
By having to be fully open to any random gov job seeker that ability to keep secrets will be lost in a generation.
Not so much late to the party, more political parties changed once secure hiring policies.
Email can be sorted over time, hours, days.
A call has to start been taken seriously as management might actually monitor calls and in some parts of the world listen in.
Real time feed back on how skilled staff are working with consumers and how the brand is been looked after.
That "photo" and "links" sent back and around networks a few times between a stranger and a worker might also be a security risk.
A phone and spoken account details might just help an issue for one person.
The ability to recite the manual to consumers actually solves some easy to fix issues. The consumer thinks they are getting real advanced help and might even make them suggest the brand that was responsive to another person.
A email that got an automated reply a few days ago and is still waiting to be sorted by a human will not help branding.
Management should also understand that for their own internal staff support. If support fails, good workers find better jobs.
Re "So, what is a person to do when all of the states supporting his or her real life needs adopt the same "screw the citizen" approach?"
The USA was not set up to take all powers from the states.
Federally the US gov has some tasks, roles and has to protect some rights.
If too much power was granted to a new US gov the States would have never agreed to become part of the USA.
Re What are you going to do when your state of choice creates a legal and regulatory environment not to your liking? Are you to insist that it be decided at the town/city level?
A lot of really great rights exist and are fully protected to seek State and federal gov changes to laws.
Need a private internet? Buy into a trusted VPN.
If some people just want cheaper internet, why not offer that service with less regulation?
Less regulation, less costs to enter the marketplace, more freedom, more new US start ups, more competition due to fewer compliance costs, new services and new products to select from.
Or select from a few big brands that use "Privacy" costs to stop any change to their networks.
Depends on where VPN and its locations. Does the USA have any access to their government/mil?
XKeyscore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... will find VPN users.
The CIA and MI6 had to make sure Communism did not take hold due to post WW2 poverty and free and fair elections into the 1950's-80's.
People with no jobs and no food take to the streets and demand change.
So a lot of care was taken to look after workers, their rights, conditions, full health cover, pensions. To have a real wage that covered food, rent, transport for all workers.
Free market of ideas but full protections to cover education, work, pensions.
That stopped Communism spreading in the working class after WW2. Good jobs, health care, dental, pensions, happy people stayed at work rather than protest for food and housing.
Generations of workers got given with very nice, protective conditions and contracts and wages.
Gov workers just keep protecting the few skilled workers who now look after the robots.
More hearts and minds. They have to find new staff. In the past it was at the very best US/UK universities.
In the very distant past even draft and national service "tests" got used to find low level staff with useful math or language skills.
Now its all about social media, conventions and been online.
The other method is to set up long term educational efforts but other nations/cults/faiths tend to notice such public efforts and flood such courses with their own long term agents.
The mistakes of using new contractors or just trusting people from good universities have been understood over the decades.
So now its social media and the internet to find and attract skilled, loyal, hard working staff.
Vetting has to be perfect every generation hired or 1930's UK staff issues return. Other faiths, cults, nations will just game the out reach efforts with computer skills and needed languages.
East Germany would often place the most low level staff into West German gov/brands. Decades later it was expected that they could rise up to be middle or upper management.
Other nations have learned from the US need for skills, translators and have taken note of a lack of real vetting due to domestic political considerations.
Also be aware of physical collection. Someone could place collection hardware that works for a while and is them removes later. No network security swould see anything new or unexpected. Keep the site secure from new friends, strangers, new staff or harrower thats been in the post.
Understand how their staff get/got into networks/sites going back to the 1950's and what could be expected into the 2020's.
Work out what products and services are now for sale or have been found in the wild and could be used to extract your secure data.
Methods are shared with other "trusted" nations, staff keep methods get sold/kept for later private sector work.
Very advanced and unexpected methods are on the open market, back market, out in the wild.
Look at how governments failed to secure their own data and why.
Internet-facing computers had plain text data so it could be shared with trusted contractors and other agencies.
Internet connected computers got found doing interesting things and interesting people collected all tools on "secure" staging systems by following the networks back.
A USB stick gets dropped around a site of interest so staff walk in and bypass all security.
Nobody smart thought to test the "modem" or "hard disk" or just trusted the altered computer hardware that got "shipped" in.
A company hires staff without vetting and staff walk out will all the data.
A company finds a very secure building but low cost cleaning staff hold doors open for "workers" who can use an elevator and tell a nice story about needing to get back in to their office.
A nice sale is made of advance private sector crypto that is junk due to government backdoors.
Work out who wants your secrets. Another nation? Your own nation? Competitor? Someone who can afford to hire ex and former clandestine service professionals? A long term dual citizen?
Groups on the internet with no funding but who have unlimited time and very advanced skills?
A cult? Faith? Political groups? Private sector competition? SJW with funding?
What will they want? Collect it all? Some files? Production work? Prototypes and concepts? Will they have an expert to guide them in your network? Or have to collect everything and sort/sell/copy later?
Look back at how the NSA and GCHQ finally learned how to kept their secrets in the 1970-80's
What did the security services finally get right and understand after decades of walk outs and complex staff issues? What failed with all the trust in contractors after the 1990's?
If your company or data is interesting or has value someone is going to be looking. Down a network, a walk in from the street or as new staff.
Keep your secrets using compartmentalization.
If a server needs to have internet facing work, make sure its only for that project. If it has to have everything on it, hire a really good cryptographer.
Someone who is working for you, not with the government, not part time for a university, not as contractor, not some outside brand, not for some other nation.
Try and secure your work and use the networks the best you can.
Try and keep any future projects away from the production networks.
Think about your modems, your storage, what hardware got "shipped" in over the years? Other nations and the clandestine services thought of all that.
Set up really interesting fake projects and see who asks or looks?
Mid and low ranking staff ask too many questions hinting at terms they should not know? Do they just want a promotion or are they trying to get access?
CCTV shows new people wondering around at strange times?
A USB device found? Someone wanting to do charity work or to sell something been on site a lot? They want to give a quick presentation from a usb stick?
Staff getting amazing new friends who really want to see their office? Data is collected by placing a trusted physical device internally well past any average protection.
After a while a type writer, paper, a vault and guards could be a good idea for the best ideas.
Fill your computer networks with encrypted bait and see what walks in or out.
Given unique distance data is gathered from all over the face e.g. the ears, eyes, facial hair would have been considered as one of the most easy ways to try and fool the systems over the decades of testing around the world.
In a very old system a person could try looking up, down, using a hat, very complex glasses, could try and bring a new hair style down over the face.
A human would quickly notice such attempts and ask the illegal migrant to look at the camera, remove the hat and ensure the system could get an image that matches entry to the USA.
This is not a CCTV image. Light, position, attempts at deceptive fashion, not been able to get a good image can all be taken into account and be corrected.
A lot of funding and work has gone into getting a lot of information from any face in any image e.g. social media, CCTV, side on, a person looking up, down, left, right. More unique data is been capture from all over the face than in past attempts.
AC tourists show their passports on both entry and exit and have not stayed longer than they should.
Why would any tourists enjoying the USA have any new issues?
Their real passport was scanned on entry, they are returning home after a great time in the USA and their valid documents match on entry and exit.
AC Re 'Why not check incoming faces"
The illegal migrants sneak in illegally or get help to enter the USA without documentation. So its hard to get an entry image.
Once in the USA the illegal immigrant might buy, create or use documents as needed domestically.
Different state and federal databases cant share a lot of details due to domestic privacy protections so some forged, borrowed or documents obtained by deception can be used to build a larger collection of real paperwork.
At some time on average the illegal migrant might feel so arrogant that they think they can travel out and then just return to the USA.
That is when reconciling exit images is so powerful. The illegal immigrant is finally detected and so is the full history of their forged documentation.
Citizenship or legal documents to be in the USA will soon be needed at the state and city level too finally removing the ability to obtain city or state cover to remain in the USA.
AC when buying your aircraft or upgrading to new aircraft read the specs. Buy better designed aircraft that can fly in different weather conditions.
Aircraft can be found on the open market work in hot conditions around the world.
Re ", they have to demonstrate that there are no American citizens or permanent residents available to take that job."
That can be done with a few select "newspaper ads" over time to show that part of the law was fully explored before bringing in people from outside the USA.
If that aspect was in any way legally difficult to show, very few workers would be able to get into the USA.
Re "One is that it's impossible to find American workers"
Tell good US universities what the USA needs. What skills all the workers for other nations have that no US university can teach?
Do other nations educational systems only pass students on merit? Are their tests more difficult? Their exams set to a higher standard?
More homework? Better labs? Better study? Study for longer? More math? More science?
What is so lacking in every US university setting that makes cheap workers from other nations so ready for US jobs?
Re "that would be difficult to pass in the courts? " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The changes to US law can be seen over the years.
US courts are now taking into consideration the feelings of people with no legal standing outside the USA who want to enter the USA.
Law has not changed, US policy is the same, the US courts are just been very political.
Why would a young person read and study to get into tech?
Even if they are poor? For the same amount of study they can get into law, medicine, or become a veterinarian.
Thats standing and pride in their own family, local community. The ability to get a better wage and later set their own hours.
US computer work has to return to an engineering profession. With a real wage and standing in the wider community.
Get a security clearance, get some university work, sell what people outside the USA can never offer.
All foreign works do is drive down costs.
A US company then has to risk its products and reputation to workers who are loyal to their own nation, cult, faith, cash or other needs.
Re "shortage of skilled IT workers"
Why are US universities not covering that? Or why is vocational education not providing a path way into been an IT worker?
Its more failure of educators and employees.
Foreign workers do not help bring more new US workers into the sector. All they do is drive wages, standards and quality down.
AC keep on reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"more widespread planting of Arabica beans" http://vietnamnews.vn/Economy/...
"Arabica production is projected to rise because of the expansion of growing areas."
Climate change is not the issue AC, good long term investment and using experts helps.
hurts the local economy.
Coffee production in Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Vietnam invested in a lot of different farming crops, so did a lot of other nations. A global flood of cheap and quality coffee now exists from many different nations.
Other nations have learned how to do all the different coffee crops and are selling on the open market.
Lots of nations saw coffee prices and helped their farmers into a cash crop. Some made quality, some went for a lot of low cost production.
Consumers want a low cost product too, so costs are been pushed down. A low price still keeps farmers in work so different nations flood the coffee market with well planned plantations.
Other nations did the planning, used their best experts over the years and can now produce at a lower cost.
Its not the weather, its just classic competition and having much better experts.
Why spend millions upgrading networks just so new media can make billions for free on the same networks?
Slowly get the millions spent on upgrades over years from exiting accounts?
Get told by local governments and cities to upgrade fully and then let just new media make billions?
Money is on the table with users spending big on movies, music and series every week down existing networks.
Share in the billions and the networks in wealthy areas get upgraded.
Wealthy areas will consume more movies and series, the share of profits on new networks will be better.
Once the media deals are done wealthy areas will be upgraded.
The problem is the services in the poor areas. Federal funding? State or city funding to get new "internet" services?
Why waste private sector profits on upgrades now in poor areas if federal or state of city funding might be on the way in a few years?
Let them have wireless for voice calls.
It depends on what a nation wants to do.
Perfecting and fully testing quantum encryption for their mil?
Collect it all telco sorting with full decryption support?
Nuclear weapons simulations to keep an old stockpile ready or to try new designs?
Dont want to go nuclear? Try other simulating other very complex weapons systems that are difficult to test without other nations asking questions.
Climate change bragging rights on the international stage with the best weather model to push some political cause?
Some university or think tank wants to attract the worlds best students to spend cash locally "learning" for years?
Different nations have very different needs for their public supercomputers.
A financial centre?
"Agriculture"
Prestige without needing to spend a lot on a good news story?
Considering the need is for "security" looking over an applicants past is often very useful.
Are they a criminal?
Are they entering the profession just to obtain or sell or give away secure information later due to their politics, faith or due to poverty?
Kind of hard to find that out if they can obfuscate, hide or totally invent a work history in another nation.
Or enter a nation with another persons identity. Always best to look over every applicants work history in great detail.
Some due diligence could often find all kinds of mistakes, omissions, gaps.
Within the USA a persons educational and work history can be considered.
What did they study, what grades did they get, do part time work? Any issues? A hard worker with good grades?
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AC a person can drive but in some states the driver and passenger will be captured using roadside CCTV.
An American would have a valid passport and enjoy their flight to and from the USA.
All part of a long term political plan to attract any workers.
The UK worked really hard after the many 1930's-1970's security issues.
By the 1970's they had finally worked out how to attract staff, keep staff and ensure staff stayed loyal.
New efforts are more about party political requests to just hire more staff. Any applications have to be considered. Staff to be considered on topics other than security, merit and loyalty. Security issues might again not be a reason not to give someone a job in the "security services".
So a lot of effort is now been made to attract people to gov work but other nations, faiths will also use the new hiring practices.
The UK had great success in the 1970-90's in Ireland as it had perfect collection security.
By having to be fully open to any random gov job seeker that ability to keep secrets will be lost in a generation.
Not so much late to the party, more political parties changed once secure hiring policies.
AC if the passport scans as having entered the USA and the same person is now going home on time, what will be ok.
Email can be sorted over time, hours, days.
A call has to start been taken seriously as management might actually monitor calls and in some parts of the world listen in.
Real time feed back on how skilled staff are working with consumers and how the brand is been looked after.
That "photo" and "links" sent back and around networks a few times between a stranger and a worker might also be a security risk.
A phone and spoken account details might just help an issue for one person.
The ability to recite the manual to consumers actually solves some easy to fix issues. The consumer thinks they are getting real advanced help and might even make them suggest the brand that was responsive to another person.
A email that got an automated reply a few days ago and is still waiting to be sorted by a human will not help branding.
Management should also understand that for their own internal staff support. If support fails, good workers find better jobs.
Re "So, what is a person to do when all of the states supporting his or her real life needs adopt the same "screw the citizen" approach?"
The USA was not set up to take all powers from the states.
Federally the US gov has some tasks, roles and has to protect some rights.
If too much power was granted to a new US gov the States would have never agreed to become part of the USA.
Re What are you going to do when your state of choice creates a legal and regulatory environment not to your liking? Are you to insist that it be decided at the town/city level?
A lot of really great rights exist and are fully protected to seek State and federal gov changes to laws.
Need a private internet? Buy into a trusted VPN.
If some people just want cheaper internet, why not offer that service with less regulation?
Less regulation, less costs to enter the marketplace, more freedom, more new US start ups, more competition due to fewer compliance costs, new services and new products to select from.
Or select from a few big brands that use "Privacy" costs to stop any change to their networks.
Depends on where VPN and its locations. Does the USA have any access to their government/mil?
XKeyscore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... will find VPN users.
The CIA and MI6 had to make sure Communism did not take hold due to post WW2 poverty and free and fair elections into the 1950's-80's.
People with no jobs and no food take to the streets and demand change.
So a lot of care was taken to look after workers, their rights, conditions, full health cover, pensions. To have a real wage that covered food, rent, transport for all workers.
Free market of ideas but full protections to cover education, work, pensions.
That stopped Communism spreading in the working class after WW2. Good jobs, health care, dental, pensions, happy people stayed at work rather than protest for food and housing.
Generations of workers got given with very nice, protective conditions and contracts and wages.
Gov workers just keep protecting the few skilled workers who now look after the robots.
More hearts and minds. They have to find new staff. In the past it was at the very best US/UK universities.
In the very distant past even draft and national service "tests" got used to find low level staff with useful math or language skills.
Now its all about social media, conventions and been online.
The other method is to set up long term educational efforts but other nations/cults/faiths tend to notice such public efforts and flood such courses with their own long term agents.
The mistakes of using new contractors or just trusting people from good universities have been understood over the decades.
So now its social media and the internet to find and attract skilled, loyal, hard working staff.
Vetting has to be perfect every generation hired or 1930's UK staff issues return. Other faiths, cults, nations will just game the out reach efforts with computer skills and needed languages.
East Germany would often place the most low level staff into West German gov/brands. Decades later it was expected that they could rise up to be middle or upper management.
Other nations have learned from the US need for skills, translators and have taken note of a lack of real vetting due to domestic political considerations.
Also be aware of physical collection. Someone could place collection hardware that works for a while and is them removes later. No network security swould see anything new or unexpected. Keep the site secure from new friends, strangers, new staff or harrower thats been in the post.
Understand how their staff get/got into networks/sites going back to the 1950's and what could be expected into the 2020's.
Work out what products and services are now for sale or have been found in the wild and could be used to extract your secure data.
Methods are shared with other "trusted" nations, staff keep methods get sold/kept for later private sector work.
Very advanced and unexpected methods are on the open market, back market, out in the wild.
Look at how governments failed to secure their own data and why.
Internet-facing computers had plain text data so it could be shared with trusted contractors and other agencies.
Internet connected computers got found doing interesting things and interesting people collected all tools on "secure" staging systems by following the networks back.
A USB stick gets dropped around a site of interest so staff walk in and bypass all security.
Nobody smart thought to test the "modem" or "hard disk" or just trusted the altered computer hardware that got "shipped" in.
A company hires staff without vetting and staff walk out will all the data.
A company finds a very secure building but low cost cleaning staff hold doors open for "workers" who can use an elevator and tell a nice story about needing to get back in to their office.
A nice sale is made of advance private sector crypto that is junk due to government backdoors.
Work out who wants your secrets. Another nation? Your own nation? Competitor? Someone who can afford to hire ex and former clandestine service professionals? A long term dual citizen?
Groups on the internet with no funding but who have unlimited time and very advanced skills?
A cult? Faith? Political groups? Private sector competition? SJW with funding?
What will they want? Collect it all? Some files? Production work? Prototypes and concepts? Will they have an expert to guide them in your network? Or have to collect everything and sort/sell/copy later?
Look back at how the NSA and GCHQ finally learned how to kept their secrets in the 1970-80's
What did the security services finally get right and understand after decades of walk outs and complex staff issues? What failed with all the trust in contractors after the 1990's?
If your company or data is interesting or has value someone is going to be looking. Down a network, a walk in from the street or as new staff.
Keep your secrets using compartmentalization.
If a server needs to have internet facing work, make sure its only for that project. If it has to have everything on it, hire a really good cryptographer.
Someone who is working for you, not with the government, not part time for a university, not as contractor, not some outside brand, not for some other nation.
Try and secure your work and use the networks the best you can.
Try and keep any future projects away from the production networks.
Think about your modems, your storage, what hardware got "shipped" in over the years? Other nations and the clandestine services thought of all that.
Set up really interesting fake projects and see who asks or looks?
Mid and low ranking staff ask too many questions hinting at terms they should not know? Do they just want a promotion or are they trying to get access?
CCTV shows new people wondering around at strange times?
A USB device found? Someone wanting to do charity work or to sell something been on site a lot? They want to give a quick presentation from a usb stick?
Staff getting amazing new friends who really want to see their office? Data is collected by placing a trusted physical device internally well past any average protection.
After a while a type writer, paper, a vault and guards could be a good idea for the best ideas.
Fill your computer networks with encrypted bait and see what walks in or out.
Given unique distance data is gathered from all over the face e.g. the ears, eyes, facial hair would have been considered as one of the most easy ways to try and fool the systems over the decades of testing around the world.
In a very old system a person could try looking up, down, using a hat, very complex glasses, could try and bring a new hair style down over the face.
A human would quickly notice such attempts and ask the illegal migrant to look at the camera, remove the hat and ensure the system could get an image that matches entry to the USA.
This is not a CCTV image. Light, position, attempts at deceptive fashion, not been able to get a good image can all be taken into account and be corrected. A lot of funding and work has gone into getting a lot of information from any face in any image e.g. social media, CCTV, side on, a person looking up, down, left, right. More unique data is been capture from all over the face than in past attempts.
AC tourists show their passports on both entry and exit and have not stayed longer than they should.
Why would any tourists enjoying the USA have any new issues?
Their real passport was scanned on entry, they are returning home after a great time in the USA and their valid documents match on entry and exit.
AC Re 'Why not check incoming faces"
The illegal migrants sneak in illegally or get help to enter the USA without documentation. So its hard to get an entry image.
Once in the USA the illegal immigrant might buy, create or use documents as needed domestically.
Different state and federal databases cant share a lot of details due to domestic privacy protections so some forged, borrowed or documents obtained by deception can be used to build a larger collection of real paperwork.
At some time on average the illegal migrant might feel so arrogant that they think they can travel out and then just return to the USA.
That is when reconciling exit images is so powerful. The illegal immigrant is finally detected and so is the full history of their forged documentation.
Citizenship or legal documents to be in the USA will soon be needed at the state and city level too finally removing the ability to obtain city or state cover to remain in the USA.
AC when buying your aircraft or upgrading to new aircraft read the specs. Buy better designed aircraft that can fly in different weather conditions.
Aircraft can be found on the open market work in hot conditions around the world.
Re ", they have to demonstrate that there are no American citizens or permanent residents available to take that job."
That can be done with a few select "newspaper ads" over time to show that part of the law was fully explored before bringing in people from outside the USA.
If that aspect was in any way legally difficult to show, very few workers would be able to get into the USA.
Re "One is that it's impossible to find American workers"
Tell good US universities what the USA needs. What skills all the workers for other nations have that no US university can teach?
Do other nations educational systems only pass students on merit? Are their tests more difficult? Their exams set to a higher standard?
More homework? Better labs? Better study? Study for longer? More math? More science?
What is so lacking in every US university setting that makes cheap workers from other nations so ready for US jobs?
Costs and seeing US workers getting real wages and better conditions again?
Re "that would be difficult to pass in the courts? "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The changes to US law can be seen over the years.
US courts are now taking into consideration the feelings of people with no legal standing outside the USA who want to enter the USA.
Law has not changed, US policy is the same, the US courts are just been very political.
Why would a young person read and study to get into tech?
Even if they are poor? For the same amount of study they can get into law, medicine, or become a veterinarian.
Thats standing and pride in their own family, local community. The ability to get a better wage and later set their own hours.
US computer work has to return to an engineering profession. With a real wage and standing in the wider community.
Get a security clearance, get some university work, sell what people outside the USA can never offer.
All foreign works do is drive down costs.
A US company then has to risk its products and reputation to workers who are loyal to their own nation, cult, faith, cash or other needs.
Re "shortage of skilled IT workers"
Why are US universities not covering that? Or why is vocational education not providing a path way into been an IT worker?
Its more failure of educators and employees.
Foreign workers do not help bring more new US workers into the sector. All they do is drive wages, standards and quality down.
AC keep on reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"more widespread planting of Arabica beans"
http://vietnamnews.vn/Economy/...
"Arabica production is projected to rise because of the expansion of growing areas."
Climate change is not the issue AC, good long term investment and using experts helps.
hurts the local economy.
Coffee production in Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Vietnam invested in a lot of different farming crops, so did a lot of other nations. A global flood of cheap and quality coffee now exists from many different nations.
Other nations have learned how to do all the different coffee crops and are selling on the open market.
Lots of nations saw coffee prices and helped their farmers into a cash crop. Some made quality, some went for a lot of low cost production.
Consumers want a low cost product too, so costs are been pushed down. A low price still keeps farmers in work so different nations flood the coffee market with well planned plantations.
Other nations did the planning, used their best experts over the years and can now produce at a lower cost.
Its not the weather, its just classic competition and having much better experts.
Why spend millions upgrading networks just so new media can make billions for free on the same networks?
Slowly get the millions spent on upgrades over years from exiting accounts?
Get told by local governments and cities to upgrade fully and then let just new media make billions?
Money is on the table with users spending big on movies, music and series every week down existing networks.
Share in the billions and the networks in wealthy areas get upgraded.
Wealthy areas will consume more movies and series, the share of profits on new networks will be better.
Once the media deals are done wealthy areas will be upgraded.
The problem is the services in the poor areas. Federal funding? State or city funding to get new "internet" services?
Why waste private sector profits on upgrades now in poor areas if federal or state of city funding might be on the way in a few years?
Let them have wireless for voice calls.
It depends on what a nation wants to do.
Perfecting and fully testing quantum encryption for their mil?
Collect it all telco sorting with full decryption support?
Nuclear weapons simulations to keep an old stockpile ready or to try new designs?
Dont want to go nuclear? Try other simulating other very complex weapons systems that are difficult to test without other nations asking questions.
Climate change bragging rights on the international stage with the best weather model to push some political cause?
Some university or think tank wants to attract the worlds best students to spend cash locally "learning" for years?
Different nations have very different needs for their public supercomputers.
A financial centre?
"Agriculture"
Prestige without needing to spend a lot on a good news story?
Considering the need is for "security" looking over an applicants past is often very useful.
Are they a criminal?
Are they entering the profession just to obtain or sell or give away secure information later due to their politics, faith or due to poverty?
Kind of hard to find that out if they can obfuscate, hide or totally invent a work history in another nation.
Or enter a nation with another persons identity. Always best to look over every applicants work history in great detail.
Some due diligence could often find all kinds of mistakes, omissions, gaps.
Within the USA a persons educational and work history can be considered.
What did they study, what grades did they get, do part time work? Any issues? A hard worker with good grades?
Was a Low-Tech Parent (Sept. 10, 2014) https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...