This article highlights the responsibility that ALL technical workers share. We must be ethical in our actions at all times. For example: Is it ethical to create a biometrics capture & storage system that does not encrypt the data it stores?
-I hear your concerns and agree. There are strong protocols set in place to make sure devices are taken care of after use, and only personnel trained on this device may use and access it. Don't worry, they know what they are doing. We can add that encryption into firmware v2 so relax. Did you sign up for that conference in Florida btw? It's going to be the bomb, sunshine, fun like no tomorrow!
There would need to be some protection for workers like there is for whistleblowers but smaller things like this don't count as whistle blowing.
In this specific case it's very easy to morally justify such data collection to yourself, after all your friend was just torn to pieces by an IED placed by partisans, and another one two weeks ago.
Russians are really "good" at this counter-insurgency game, they simply torture, run concentration camps, ethnically cleanse by sending to Siberia. Worked in Chechnya, works now in Ukraine.
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-signs-bill-to-block-us-railr...
'... Biden administration this week used the provisions of a 96-year-old labor law to force unions representing thousands of railway workers to accept a contract ...'
> Unlike the National Labor Relations Act, he said, which leaves both labor and management with "economic weapons" they can threaten to use (strikes for unions, and lockouts for management), the Railway Labor Act has a provision allowing the government to block a strike from taking place.
It's not only that, it's also that the money is really good, comparatively speaking.
One of my close friends is a tech guy and works for the biggest European defence company, which is mostly a French-German alliance (they're also in the business of making planes), and two of his last job stints abroad have been in Afghanistan and in Saudi Arabia. There's no way he could have made the sort of money that he made had he decided to work for a local, very boring company (I live in an Eastern European capital city).
It is often voluntary lifetime debt slavery to have payments on the latest gadgets/car/timeshare/oversized house.
Recently train workers union had working conditions crammed down on them by no less than Biden. If the workers were not in debt slavery they could have quit. Biden showed a union they don't have a choice when their members are debt slaves.
Your protection will arrive when you change your lifestyle to get out of debt slavery.