Former NSA Hacker Describes Being Recruited for UAE Spy Program
> There were no red flags because I was so naive. But… there’s a ton of red flags [in retrospect]…. [For example] when you’re in the interview process and you’re talking about defending [the UAE] and … doing tracking of terrorist activity,… but then you’re [being asked] very specific questions about integrated enterprise Windows environments and [how you might hack them]. Guess who doesn’t have those type of networks? Terrorist organizations. So why [is the recruiter] asking these kinds of questions…?<p>> So had I been really cognizant of where or what I was stepping into, I probably would have known during even the interview process that something is a little bit amiss here.<p>Given the number of trainings that he would have attended while working at the NSA, I find it hard to believe that his OpSec radar wouldn't have been going off at that point.<p>Having read the remainder of the interview, IMO the entire series of events can be summarized as follows:<p>>Things were fishy from the start, but the compensation was good so I was happy to collect a paycheck until all plausible deniability went out the window. Knowing the gravy train wouldn't last forever and that the US govt would one day come knocking, I denied a position at DarkMatter and moved back to the states.