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• Mitch Wagner commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  "... I felt uncomfortable for having worked at my last employer for more than 5 years, and I left after 7. And my disomfort came from worrying about the impression I might give future employeers if I'd stuck with my last job too long because it might be a sign of stagnation." I recently found myself making excuses for still working for the same company that hired me in 1989. I explained that I'd actually been laid off twice in that time, and quit of my own accord once. So I've been hired by the same company four times. And...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm_MGMqV4uXUu1Qn9fuurQnI7EIa4tXvdA commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Congrats on the name check and basic rehash of your synopsis in the FT today...
• mcrodgers commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  BTW, RISKS-FORUM Digest 27.45 quotes and links to your Foreign Policy article....
• eabecerra commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Charles - I'd like to take a moment to point out that part of the problem may have been pointed out by one of your fellow authors, specifically Norman Spinrad in "Little Heroes." Why, so many upper level types ask themselves, should we treat the common man with any respect, as machines seem able to do the job of everything BUT management? With each passing year - each passing MONTH, for that matter - it becomes that much easier to put another job on the "We can program a chip to do this" pile, and arrange things so that the...
• halter.steven commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Nice reference to this in a Bruce Schneier post: Government Secrecy and the Generation Gap...