@s9chroma @chrisprucha I mean, I had long since moved on w my SWE career by the time Snowden drama came out... but it was confirmation of stuff I'd heard whispered before that made me not want to put myself in that situation, stuck between classified work & moral qualms.
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Reply · Sep 17, 2023@s9chroma @chrisprucha lol very old news, pre-Snowden, I was in a cybersecurity grad scholarship program that fed the agencies; after a year of…Reply · Nov 25, 2023@redaction ha meanwhile i have insecurities abt being just another SWE like everyone else here only w less passion for it recently... kinda looking…Reply · Dec 21, 2023@QiaochuYuan my impression as to why i was sworn to secrecy was "keep quiet because we're scared of retribution" ... then something shortly before i…Reply · Oct 17, 2021@edavidds @metzgov Lol! Nope, never! 🙂 Living in the DC area it's been a very intentional career choice to stay away from defense / intel, for the…