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minus-squareschizo@forum.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoOf all the things that happen in the movie, the thought that someone will have hooked a top-secret defense computer up to a modem is the one that is the absolute most believable. Like, it’s entirely going to have happened at some point.
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agofor several years, the process for getting security clearance involved no background check, just knowing who to ask. they literally rubber stamped it. getting a fed job or something still did, but just security clearance, on its own, for anyone? just ask. not even nicely.
Of all the things that happen in the movie, the thought that someone will have hooked a top-secret defense computer up to a modem is the one that is the absolute most believable.
Like, it’s entirely going to have happened at some point.
for several years, the process for getting security clearance involved no background check, just knowing who to ask. they literally rubber stamped it.
getting a fed job or something still did, but just security clearance, on its own, for anyone? just ask. not even nicely.