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One man's "activist" is another man's terrorist, basically. Activists are liable to convert to extremism with the right set of triggers. This can therefore qualify as "counterterrorism", because if they access all your communications they may be able to flag you as a potential clinic bomber, etc.
Also, I seriously doubt the assertion in the headline that terrorists simply don't use common online services, and even if this were true, the ripples that can be correlated from their associates who do use these services would still be of interest to law enforcement.
Depends on your end goal. If the goal is actually what's stated, I.e. stopping terrorists, there is no value.
If the actual goal is to produce a massive database of citizen activities for later (ab)use, then there is a huge benefit for the government.
Since all of the evidence seems to point to scenario #2 (since there is no good reason that tracking those eeeevul turrists) requires all this information from innocent people, I think we can safely assume their excuse is a shitty facade.
> In security you can only be as strong as your weakest link, and when dealing with a global organization you will surely have weak links.
This is the point that this, bandwagon, article misses completely. They may be judging right, the smart criminals (or terrorists) understand tradecraft and how to avoid using obvious means of detection. However there are always many more low level folks that wil slip up due to lack of competence and lack of experience. When this happens we (non-terrorists) are able to establish a foothold at some, any, level of the organization and start to pick it apart.
1.) Take a page out of the Buffer playbook and start guest blogging everywhere you can.
2.) If it is truly easy to use (more so than competitors) then I would demonstrate that. (Video, Gif, Vine video of someone searching, etc)
3.) Your core value proposition isn't immediately recognizable when one lands on your home page. Why should I use this site for my home search? Why is this better than the other guy? Etc...
4.) Reach out to agents in the area and offer to help them out in some way. Partnerships, referrals, asking them to guest blog on your site to build their rep, etc.
This was required reading for me (and most others) while going through the Marine Corps officer training program... A great read and probably one of the core reasons to hire former members of the military (in my biased opinion) along with a handful of other reasons that can't be taught in school.
The officer selection program screens individuals for potential to lead and thrive in a variety of very stressful situations THEN once they've screened for top performers they assign them a job and train them how to do it.
A completely different process than most companies who expect all of their talent to show up with a very specific skill set. Unfortunately this leads to some amazing people being excluded for the talent pool because "it is too much work to train" someone. If one learns the traits to look for I'd guess that training them becomes a breeze and you'll end up with a better hire who will stick around in the long run.
Great question and something I'm interested in finding out as well. We currently use Skype but I'm not totally happy with it.
I've looked into a few others but if I'm going to go through the trouble of switching I'd like to find something HIPPA compliant so we can use it for more than general basic conversation...
For small businesses using direct mail (well written sales letters) real first class stamps convert at a much much higher rate than bulk mail postage in many cases.
I would love to see more non-technical/semi-technical posts on the thread as well...
Most of the companies that I've dug into from the "Who's Hiring" thread seem to have non-tech jobs open once you get to their site and poke around but they don't seem to get posted on the thread.
All human movement is a skill and anything you "do wrong" over and over again will eventually cause injury. I'd recommend you take a look at Dr. Kelly Starrett's book "Becoming A Supple Leopard" the title may seem silly but the information inside is life changing.
