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Surprise to be sure, but welcome one (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Hackers come to mind, but I'm struggling to think of other criminal skills that the government would direct hire you for.

I don't know that I would count Confidential Informants as being "hired", nor someone being hired who resides outside the country theyre working for (an Algerian smuggler working for/with the CIA, for example).

Can anyone think of any others?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    Maybe espionage, in flipping assets to become double agents.

    Counter intelligence style jobs. Hiring the person who breaks into a military base to harden bases. Hacking in the physical space I guess.

    Smugglers are probably used for black ops, but that's probably more of a contractor type situation than a hiring. Similarly contract killers that are sufficiently good probably have state level protections to some degree.

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