On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 09:36 PM, George W. Maschke wrote:
Interestingly, the first and primary measure that the NSA director mentioned was polygraph testing. It's interesting because polygraphy is a thoroughly discredited pseuodoscience. It depends on the person being "tested" being ignorant of the trickery on which the procedure relies.
How ironic that America's most technologically sophisticated intelligence agency relies on early 20th century pseudoscience as the keystone of its personnel security program.
Does that also mean that the CIA are down in Moscow tracking Snowden with Dowsing rods? But seriously folks, think for a second about the levels of paranoia right now at the NSA's HR department. They know that any future applicant could be another Snowden, so what are the chances that these new measures include using PRISM selectors on candidates to look for dirt or even nude selfies^W^WSIGLOVE? Alfie -- Alfie John alfiej@fastmail.fm