News UW Officially Announces CIA Program to Students
posted by August 14 at 13:52 PM
onThe University of Washington has officially announced that a CIA agent will be on campus next year.
Dr. Tim Thomas will teach 133t haxxor skills to students enrolled in UW’s information school.
I wrote about Thomas’s class a few weeks ago. You can check out the story here and the program website here.
In 1991, students and faculty at Seattle University protested after the school offered a CIA officer temporary position in the school’s history department. The school later rescinded its job offer.
Classes at UW start September 24th.
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As long as they keep those fucking Larouche kids off campus, they can make Pat Robertson the chair of the meteorology department for all I care.
Can I audit?
Just another reason to loathe the iSchool.
Which almost everyone who ever had the misfortune of attending that program already has enough of.
Tim Thomas sounds like a fake-ass name.
how can people possibly lose their shit over a CIA agent TEACHING A FUCKING CLASS? WHAT POSSIBLE BAD COULD RESULT FROM THIS?
p.s. wheres the football post jonah slackenthal-lee
I thought this was in the staff paper a couple of weeks ago, actually.
Maybe they'll give us someone who can cook like Julia Childs ....
This is seriously overblown. "133t haxxor skills"? From what I see, he's teaching basic data mining and information retrieval techniques for use on publicly available media. These are the same sorts of techniques that, e.g., Google uses to categorize incoming news data. This is hardly heavy-duty surveillance stuff. Get over it already.
@7, it's Jonah Spangenthal-Lee...he's gotta stir the pot with no ingredients.
Is this really Josh Feit's replacement? He sucks.
Yeah, but he's got a killer last name.
But like the CIA is totes evil. Fuck the fact that some students might want to learn from a practitioner.
Whatever. The CIA is a necessary evil (like a police force or an army). And if they taught something that I could use to make my life better I would do it.
Hell, if they had a job opening for a 44yo in a wheelchair with experience in filmmaking, DJ-ing, and secretarial work, sign me up!
I [heart] 133t haxxor skills!
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I am gonig to get beat up for this but here it goes: The reality is that over the past couple of decades the US Intellegence services have lost people to private corporations (who want to do their own spying) and as a result the US has lost talented people. I'd hate to say this but I want the CIA to get talented people to join as well as get rid of coruption in the agency at the top. The bottom line is we need good intellegence that is loyal to facts so our leaders can't manipulate it to their own means.
Is he really a CIA "agent"? I don't really see the cause for protest here.
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