Post AUg89IXD9a5dNba9Ls by blacktraffic@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #AUfbyHqy9JrnY2Wt28 by cstross@wandering.shop
       2023-04-15T08:02:16Z
       
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       It's beginning to sound to me as if the US security clearance process has completely lost the plot: it focuses on whether your history can be verified and whether you can be blackmailed, not on whether you're a security risk. Lying/blackmail merely indicate vulnerability to foreign agents: wanting to overturn the state/being a Putinist totalitarian make you an actual one but are apparently not screened for these days ...https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/liz-cheney-says-greene-lose-security-clearance-defending-suspect-penta-rcna79734
       
 (DIR) Post #AUfdk89Bdip1IbQatU by ec670@pawoo.net
       2023-04-15T08:34:17Z
       
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       @cstross I, for one, hope that the regime repression forces do implement much more severe screening for ideological alignment - and the more postmodern and incoherent, the better.No way that has ever backfired.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUg89HoBqy4r7yWCB6 by prettyhatmech@mastodon.social
       2023-04-15T08:25:36Z
       
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       @cstross UK security clearance is effectively a combination of did you pay your rent on time;  and have you ever suggested the Royal Family aren’t good value for money.The old Soviet method of actually making everyone watch each other, seems more effective than most of our new security firms making you complete a form.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUg89IXD9a5dNba9Ls by blacktraffic@infosec.exchange
       2023-04-15T09:19:47Z
       
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       @cstross @prettyhatmech the basic level is more like a mortgage application plus what do you think about terrorism / undermining parliamentary democracy.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUg89JegzFfUr65deS by prettyhatmech@mastodon.social
       2023-04-15T09:28:31Z
       
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       @blacktraffic @cstross Yeah that is a good comparison; although if the questions were asking about undermining democracy; then based on the British Intelligence services; the better you are at undermining democracy the more likely you are to get the job?
       
 (DIR) Post #AUg89KAF5wuCQwqppQ by cstross@wandering.shop
       2023-04-15T09:31:10Z
       
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       @prettyhatmech @blacktraffic TBF the entire purpose of the British and US foreign services over the past century has mostly been about undermining democracy (former colonies' democracies, that is).
       
 (DIR) Post #AUg89KoefhEQSHl6oq by blacktraffic@infosec.exchange
       2023-04-15T09:33:42Z
       
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       @prettyhatmech @cstross cue:A tourist is wandering down Whitehall looking lost. He spots a policeman.“Can you tell me which side the Foreign Office is on please?”The policeman furrows his brows.“Ours, I think?”