thewildginger

As recently as 2022 en masse convictions of corrections officers have been happening within states.

In Georgia during a two year sting 46 people were convicted, all DOC employees, mostly Corrections Officers.

Taking away physical mail from people already deprived of their rights seems extreme, especially when the problem pretty clearly is COs who enable it.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/final-defendants-includin...

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/court-overturns-guards...

Do you have any more information on this issue, what you mean, and the topic? I think I'm getting this but want to read more to understand.

Are you saying modern Operating systems are inherently insecure in what is allowed to use those spaces? You mentioned the dollar analogy. Someone else mentioned Androids storage access service.

I'm understanding it like this. Youre saying systems of access control within the kernel space are a known and used resource, but practices like this are ignored in the infosec world. Am I getting it?

I read HN partially to learn about cybersecurity is why I ask.

The greatest secret of government work is the hours. With the federal holidays, work celebrations at restaurants or bars, long lunches, you already work 30 hours a week.

At national labs they need software engineers to build internal tools for scientists in different fields. DOE labs are not all murder building machines, in fact most aren't. They do all kinds of research depending on the location. DOE national labs are a big tent.

The best way to describe the government of the US, and as far as I've read any powerful ruling organization, is they end up running like a mob in that people might disagree with how something was done, boss might not like what enforcers are doing, people are getting politically whackes or punished for doing not exactly what boss told them, but above all else, they will be damned before someone outside the family knows about it. I believe the US IC is no different.

I made an account to also reply to this. My first hacker news comment, here we go.

These are all good points, and I want to add another good niche.

The government research labs need people. The pay is not as good as the private sector, but the desire to work on meaningful projects is aplenty. Batelle is the big one, with smaller labs. It's a complicated bureaucracy, but as a researcher, support staff for projects, or scientist, you don't have to go that route. All the mentioned paths can be hard to start in except the military straight up, but you mentioned other problems with that option.

Government labs have projects with clearances and without, and by working for one you can start to build a path to getting a clearance. If you have experience as a SWE you should be able to find a job at one of the many labs all over the country.

To clarify, They are mostly DOE. https://nationallabs.org/our-labs/

https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/national-laboratories

I've heard kf SWEs, engineers, and data scientists who started there. Also companies that are government contractors can be a path to breaking into the field like Oracle, IBM, AT&T, and traditional defense MIC companies like Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, etc.