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    #31
    Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
    You lot have taught me well in the ways of geekiness, surfing for porn and contracting
    FTFY!

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      #32
      Originally posted by Churchill View Post
      That's what's going through my mind. It's a developer role.
      At least if it's a developer role, you have the chance to bring the system down from within

      I spent a while umming and ahing about whether to take the role or not, and decided that I would end up unhappy with what I was doing, so turned it down. One of the reasons I don't work for a large consultancy any more is that I didn't want to be forced into working on projects like that.
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        #33
        Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
        At least if it's a developer role, you have the chance to bring the system down from within

        I spent a while umming and ahing about whether to take the role or not, and decided that I would end up unhappy with what I was doing, so turned it down. One of the reasons I don't work for a large consultancy any more is that I didn't want to be forced into working on projects like that.
        I should fit right in, I'm a nosey bastard who thinks Google-Earth is a wonderful voyeuristic tool...

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          #34
          Look what I dug up. Before Snowden too...

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            #35
            Originally posted by Churchill View Post
            Look what I dug up. Before Snowden too...


            merely at clientco for the entertainment

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              #36
              If you want an even more accurate prediction about state surveillance, watch Senator Frank Church on Meet The Press from August 1975:

              [America’s intelligence gathering] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left. Such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.

              If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

              I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that [the NSA] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
              Originally posted by MaryPoppins
              I hadn't really understood this 'pwned' expression until I read DirtyDog's post.

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                #37
                Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                ...with the following statement?
                Yes, I do agree.

                Nobody here can know that we don't need this, because nobody here is doing that work. And if they were, they wouldn't be opining about it on here.

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
                  Yes, I do agree.

                  Nobody here can know that we don't need this, because nobody here is doing that work. And if they were, they wouldn't be opining about it on here.
                  Surely it's fixing a symptom and not the underlying problem...

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                    #39
                    How did doggy post from 1982?

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                      #40
                      If a terrorist wants to send a message it is easy to encrypt it, even a five year old could do it.
                      Message on a jpeg made into a text file and then split and sent in sections along with other junk. Impossible to crack.
                      "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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