Ask HN: Do you work for any of the included companies? (Dell/HBGary/AT&T/etc)

2 points

13 years ago

A recent discussion on Endgame Systems[1] with a user here yielded an interesting result, defense of the company by virtue of the commenter working at a similar unnamed entity. Some time later a thread here on Snowden's husband was being flagged, evident by it's sinking rank yet simultaneous rising votes and valid commentary.

This led me to wondering a few things, first: What number of users here are embedded at companies like Endgame Systems, SAIC, HBGary[2], Google while receiving monetary remuneration for work rendered. Second: What are these users feelings on the end result of their labor? Drone strikes, renditions, exploits used on dissidents, airport terminal blackholes, destructive malware aimed at dangerous industries like Iran's nuclear program. Have they been forced to defend involvement in these things to themselves even if only for being an AT&T technician maintaining installed hardware? Or do they find themselves responding with flagging articles they have probable conflict of interests in?

The short of it: What is their rationale for being complicit in these times?

Companies one may find themselves to be employed with, posted from Barret Brown's[3] Project PM[4] and Telecomix's Bluecabinet[5]:

Hunton & Williams, Endgame Systems, Blue Coat Systems, Berico, Glimmerglass, Bunker Communications, Qorvis, Booz Allen Hamilton, L3 Communications, Palantir, SAIC

[1] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems

[2] http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/HBGary

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivien-lesnik-weisman/the-strange-case-of-barre_b_3738448.html

[4] http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Main_Page

[5] http://bluecabinet.info/wiki/Blue_cabinet