, SecurityFocus 2002-04-10
Some computer security professionals are already feeling the pinch from a new Defense Department policy discouraging contractors from hiring non-citizens. The Pentagon says it's about loyalty; visa holders call it classic xenophobia.
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Fears of a Security Brain Drain
2002-04-11
Anonymous (2 replies)
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Fears of a Security Brain Drain
2002-04-11
Conscious US Citizen (1 replies)
Conscious US Citizen (1 replies)
Above you can see a racist and shortsighted comment. Computer science was invented by immigrants, and Americans in the States. One important person was John Neumann. He was a Hungarian mathematician... He was Hungarian by birth german by origin and his did most of his work in the States.
Also I'd like to comment on the loyalty issue: Citizenship makes no one loyal. Foreign citizenship makes no one disloyal to the country one chose to live in.
I have not much loyalty to any militant agressive and opressive nation. And the United States since 11th of September is growing to be one of the most disconserting places.
I thank God I do not live there.
I very much agree with the Russian programmer at the end of the article. It does remind me very much of the last years of the eastern block...
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