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DavidBrooker t1_j5qhwbg wrote

The sum-total of the 'news' in this article is that an interviewer asked a yes/no question about a game. That 'may' in the title is probably going to buckle under the strain its taking, since we have no idea what the consequences of that question are, there's no indication that it's unto itself a security flag, and we don't even know if there's a follow-up question.

Now, this is just pure speculation, which I suppose qualifies me to write for PCMag, but I'm going to guess there is at least one or two more forks in the interviewer's question script before they declare you a risk to national security.

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UglyInThMorning t1_j5rko66 wrote

Also their source for Raytheon asking about it is a guy said an investigator asked about it.

They don’t ask about it.

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hawaiijim t1_j5rq8o6 wrote

In the USA, defense contractors like Raytheon don't even do their own security clearance investigations. The US government does it. This was a bad article all around.

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UglyInThMorning t1_j5t3g8t wrote

If it’s a job that doesn’t require clearance (there’s a lot of them) they just use one of those private services and do a generic background check. If it does require clearance they usually want you to have it when you apply.

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hawaiijim t1_j5t7hfi wrote

The article specifically says, "As part of the security clearance process," which is part of what makes the private investigator claim dubious.

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UglyInThMorning t1_j5t7y43 wrote

The article also has no idea what it’s talking about because it’s based on a comment that someone made up.

I work at Raytheon with access to the same level of material that’s been leaked on the WT forums (export restricted but not otherwise classified) and my background check was just “upload some documents and we’ll call you if anything comes up”.

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Flame2512 t1_j5shckc wrote

And they based the entire article off the claims of one Reddit user who later admitted he made the whole thing up.

Raytheon also denied the story both on their official Reddit account and in a statement given to other news outlets.

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