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Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I’d imagine that not publicising your employment status is a run of the mill security measure for specific roles and industries that are subjects of targeted attacks.

As a meatspace equivalent I’m sure there are not many CIA operatives walking around foreign countries and giving out CIA-stamped business cards.

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Off-topic: Given that state cyber entities maintain networks isolated from the internet, how do they adapt to the rise of tools like Co-Pilot and ChatGPT in the software engineering landscape? This kind of security setup inherently restricts access to such tools, potentially slowing their pace. Thoughts?

Don't use them, duh. Pay enough money to get a copy on premises if it ever gets useful enough for that. In the time they'll get around to changing their procedures, models will get small enough that it will be a non-issue.

Disclaimer: layman's opinion, I only know what internet knows.

I work at a large SF based SaaS, there's so much money in that space the company spun up a team to build an air gapped version of our product for restricted networks.

It's definitely much slower than the private sector, but if the agencies decide they have a use case, they'll throw money at it until it works in house.

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