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7/23/2025, 8:47:37 PM
>>106001255
Unfortunately my jeet friend, this is not true. In Canada you have to at least be a "permanent resident" and our secret squirrels are notably more draconian than the rest of NATO because Canada, despite being a nation of boomers, takes IT security and investment incredibly seriously and has a long history of having strong and well-funded spy organizations.
It was actually a minor crisis a few (ok maybe 10-ish) years back that because it is so hard to get a clearance, technician trades in the military suffered because people would join, get trained not quite high enough, and have to wait so long for a clearance to get further training (let alone depoly) that the attrition rate became extreme among the lower ranks. Exit interview data revealed that the biggest reason to quit was lack of training and thus career progression, and other data on the training establishments revealed consistently low course loads because most people otherwise ready to train did not have the requisite clearance on time to take the course.
Things have not improved since then.
NATO also does not process its own clearances. To get a NATO clearance you require a national clearance from a NATO member state. NATO has better things to do (supposedly) than vet random IT janitors
And furthermore, a NATO clearance is inherently lower-level than any national clearance, and to work in private industry you, or rather, the employer, still has to file for specific access for a given employee. You don't just walk on site with a red badge and get to poke into every safe and touch every server. Even if you're a 40 year old white man who did two tours in Afghanistan, if you work for Lockheed at the Death Gel factory, Lockheed still has to file to say "let veteran anon into our Death Gel factory please". It's just faster because the gubberment already knows you have operated Death Gel so they don't care if you know how it's made, but still needs to know who's wandering around the Death Gel plant
Unfortunately my jeet friend, this is not true. In Canada you have to at least be a "permanent resident" and our secret squirrels are notably more draconian than the rest of NATO because Canada, despite being a nation of boomers, takes IT security and investment incredibly seriously and has a long history of having strong and well-funded spy organizations.
It was actually a minor crisis a few (ok maybe 10-ish) years back that because it is so hard to get a clearance, technician trades in the military suffered because people would join, get trained not quite high enough, and have to wait so long for a clearance to get further training (let alone depoly) that the attrition rate became extreme among the lower ranks. Exit interview data revealed that the biggest reason to quit was lack of training and thus career progression, and other data on the training establishments revealed consistently low course loads because most people otherwise ready to train did not have the requisite clearance on time to take the course.
Things have not improved since then.
NATO also does not process its own clearances. To get a NATO clearance you require a national clearance from a NATO member state. NATO has better things to do (supposedly) than vet random IT janitors
And furthermore, a NATO clearance is inherently lower-level than any national clearance, and to work in private industry you, or rather, the employer, still has to file for specific access for a given employee. You don't just walk on site with a red badge and get to poke into every safe and touch every server. Even if you're a 40 year old white man who did two tours in Afghanistan, if you work for Lockheed at the Death Gel factory, Lockheed still has to file to say "let veteran anon into our Death Gel factory please". It's just faster because the gubberment already knows you have operated Death Gel so they don't care if you know how it's made, but still needs to know who's wandering around the Death Gel plant
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