"Sorry, that email domain is not recognized. -- An email address from a recognized U.S. school or university is required. If your school's domain is not recognized, please request it to be allowed by clicking HERE"
Asking the same cause this is one I've never had time to do when I was in university and would like to do it now that I'm graduated.
It is a shame you can't get access as a non recruitment target though.
1. You can get one from Hafis: https://hafis.net/product-category/edu-email/,
2. or host your own mail server after registering an .edu address,
3. or maybe you can find someone in your network who still has a valid .edu address and is willing to register for you.
You think being Omni-potent in a modern world wouldn't bring its own shade of problems?
It's more akin to the boxers who were deemed not to qualify cuz their deemed arbitrarily too old remind the judges of their youth, all in good fun.
If you cannot get access to an @edu email for long enough to verify a 2FA between Facebook familiarity and now, you likely aren't of the caliber outside of the domain specialty that can be entrusted with that magnitude of information.
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.
Although, not too unbelievable for highly-sensitive contexts.
A pilot with less obvious motivation to go AWOL institutionally could only benefit the context.
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.
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.