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by whoopdeepoo 1237 days ago
Exactly. I made a fortune as an intelligence contractor during the Iraq war.
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So did many other war criminals.
Doing what? Government IT contracts? Were they easy to get?
First we were looking for potential uranium deposits with satellite imagery. When that was no longer necessary we switched to identifying targets for aerial strikes. The imagery was pretty outdated but they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate.

I got the job through family, my uncle was able to get in the industry in the 80s.

> they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate.

I don't think that enabling capricious air strikes is the kind of work that is going to allay most people's ethical concerns.

The nepotism involved probably isn’t available to everyone anyway.
> I don't think that enabling capricious air strikes is the kind of work that is going to allay most people's ethical concerns.

Seriously for a second I was like, maybe the NSA isn't such a bad idea anymore. They're out there making Ghidra and other open source tools so that's nice. And then I read this and immediately thought of that monologue from Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg

That's gonna be a no from me dawg.

Define fortune.
Chump change compared to the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars wasted but enough for me to not care about the consequences of my actions