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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSerious hypothetical:
You own a business that requires cyber security.
Would you hire Edward Snowden?
The Philosopher
(895 posts)you do not hire someone to do right by other people and their interests, but by you and your interests.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)he's dishonest.
He's proven he can't be trusted.
He took the job with the express purpose of stealing information. Someone pulled his strings, imo.
Makes me wonder what got him to do it. He gave up a pretty good salary, family, a girl, I don't believe he didn't out of the goodness of his heart.
Just what I think. Who knows though...
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)My business would be doing nothing illegal or unethical, so I would trust his expertise.
Autumn
(44,762 posts)I'm pretty honest and I don't spy on American citizens.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Or at the very least does my business do things that may indeed be illegal but we will never divulge it one way or another?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)someone who I know is a thief would be asking for trouble.
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)I would make sure I understood every aspect of the service deployed including being able to stand into their position on a moments notice. Outside of that, I do my own cyber security and trust no one in that respect. Seems paranoid but since I do cyber security and technical managing I know how it can be done to look secure to the business owner and not be secure at all either due to negligence, stupidity or malice. Cyber security is oxymoronic anyway.
Would I hire Snowden? It matters not.
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)If so, no way.