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Jake's avatar

“Let me help you get rich, but first, donate to me on Patreon and divulge all your personal information”

This is the equivalent of a dancer telling you she loves you, and to leave you wife and kids.

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Robman's avatar

Do they really need these recruiter/spies when DOGE appears to be feeding federal information and data directly to Russia? Ryan, could you post something about this and the NLRB shenanigans?

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Those aren’t German road markings, and I don’t know where he would have got a left hand drive car with English instructions on the window shade this side of the Atlantic. 🤔

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Bitxtvx's avatar

That's Maryland he's driving in. Baltimore county.

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John S Richards's avatar

Looks like a Radar Detector under the Rear View Mirror. These are not needed if he is really driving in Germany…

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Wade Ebert's avatar

This is how Ditzy Noem and Drunk Hegseth got hired yo!

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Andy Micone's avatar

This is also how corporate opposition research works, but it usually happens on the golf course, at the bar, or trade shows. I can't tell you how many huge deals have gotten torpedoed by some idiot trying to outdo his "golf buddies." I just cleaned the mess afterward. I doubt most people who use a consumer electronic device even consider that who provided the widgets to make the gadgets was a dance of multinational companies playing Spy vs. Spy.

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Rockjaw's avatar

Another example is these fake LinkedIn networking requests that attempt to portray a youngish female of Asian descent that seemingly has a ridiculously senior-level job title, like chief medical officer for large well-known CA-based medical organizations, w/ the verbiage stating “I’m impressed by your skill set, expertise and accomplishments and you seem to be a person that can play a significant part in my upcoming project, so I’d like to connect”… another type of this trope is wherein on both YT long and short videos for seemingly those that have millions of subscribers, these Asian female profiles, many using the same profile phots albeit different names, continuously post these generic and random comments like “I like your style”, or “your content is so interesting”, highlighting for the more insightful subscriber that, particularly for YT channels whose content is geared to say construction, heavy-duty equipment restoration or even historical WW2 battle strategy and tactical assessments, the plethora of these comments is totally disingenuous to the channel genre… kinda makes even innocuous YT into a real PIA…

Ignorance isn’t bliss…

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David Klein's avatar

I never respond, but YOU I trust. Here's my credit card info.....

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Ed Kapuscinski's avatar

You know what? If someone gets fooled by this type of thing I'm kinda ok with them not having access to sensitive info.

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Jake's avatar

You mean our SecDef and staff? 😪

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Ed Kapuscinski's avatar

I'd never say that...

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Larry Chesnut's avatar

Our annual security training quizes should make answering these kinds of questions pass/fail to drive home these obvious points.

Who needs code hackers when we have careless people leaking like a boat made from a sieve.

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Anthony Monge's avatar

Good video! One thing on putting your clearance on your resume. I am currently on the hunt for a job (just finished PhD in Computing). A lot of defense companies ask if you have an active clearance and they want it on your resume. If you have one but do not list it, your resume hits the round file.

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P Username's avatar

People tell the truth about things like that? I lie ALL THE TIME online. I have kids. I'm childless. I'm single. I'm a grandfather. I just graduated. I just retired. I have been married for 20 years. I have never been married. etc...etc.

I guess some people are desperate and will send off info to a stranger like that? Seems like a sucker is born every minute (and they should have their clearance revoked).

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Michael Nistler's avatar

Thanks for sharing and gotta love the comments on sentencing ranging from "7 years in prison isn't enough" all the way up to "China would execute them."

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Steve's avatar

I'm a Commentoholic. I read an aticle, and once I get what is being said...Right to the Comments I go. For good or ill.

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Douglas Palmer's avatar

I would be required to report this contact if it were sent directly to me. In fact, I should probably send the link on to our DCSA reporting process anyway. People, especially outside the government and contractor industry, don’t have a great understanding of shape of threats we confront day to day.

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Federico Calboli's avatar

Shall I send a fake CV? just for the lulz. I am not joining his Patreon though.

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