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by tptacek 644 days ago
If you don't have a family, the Air Force won't let you fly a plane.

Can you cite a source for this? I'm acquainted with some USAF people and have close friends with fighter pilot siblings (I know, family) and I have never heard this before. If by "family" you mean "a spouse", the people going up in trainers are too young to have built families, so that can't possibly be a DQ.
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Jerrrrrrry 644 days ago
That was kinda an obvious analogous exaggeration.

Although, not too unbelievable for highly-sensitive contexts.

A pilot with less obvious motivation to go AWOL institutionally could only benefit the context.

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tptacek 644 days ago
Is that a rule, or just something you think should be a rule?
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Jerrrrrrry 643 days ago
Once it's written down, it doesn't matter what it was, it's a rule
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Jtsummers 644 days ago
They can't because it's not true.
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tptacek 644 days ago
It sounded weird af to me.

In fairness: so too does the claim that this is a test of whether you can hack a .edu email address, like it's 1994 and the next test in their CTF is whether you can find an X.25 outdial. No, they're just recruiting from engineering schools, like everyone else!

Career tip: if hoping for a GG-whatever role at NSA, recommend not committing crimes in the process of trying to impress them. They are a lot more boring than you think they are.

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Jerrrrrrry 644 days ago 

  Career tip: if hoping for a GG-whatever role at NSA, recommend not committing crimes in the process of trying to impress them. They are a lot more boring than you think they are.
well, its not a really a crime when you do it for the homeland. also not a crime if its boring.
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