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Amazon is staffing up for its $600 million cloud for spooks

76 points| ferdo | 12 years ago |qz.com | reply

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[+] dfc|12 years ago|reply
One thing that’s mysterious, and possibly telling, about Amazon’s job announcement for a “Systems Engineer—Government Cleared” is that the location of this job—Herndon, Virginia—may or may not coincide with the location of the CIA’s own cloud computing centers.

This is not mysterious or surprising. Herndon, VA is full of entities doing TS/SCI work. It would be mysterious and surprising if the job announcement was in Kohler, Wisconsin.

[+] ck2|12 years ago|reply
Hopefully half-billion taxpayer funding to Amazon will bring down consumer prices even further elsewhere in their network.

It's all "fun and games" until that network is hacked and info on half of the United States is copied to a foreign country or a foreign mafia.

[+] taternuts|12 years ago|reply
I know the area, and their used to be a building that was pretty much known to be some kind of CIA building. They made it 'fit in' by covering the building with fake windows, although I did see them doing some renovations on it so I'm not sure if that's still the case.
[+] stevehawk|12 years ago|reply
All black one? now an all white one? didn't belong to them.
[+] xauronx|12 years ago|reply
Where I come from "spooks" has two meanings, and neither makes sense here as far as I can tell.
[+] _delirium|12 years ago|reply
It can be a slang term for "spies", and sometimes by extension, anyone who works for a secretive government organization like the CIA or NSA.
[+] tropicalmug|12 years ago|reply
Why does Quartz allow for their menu bar to resize for any window size but prevent the article pane from doing the same thing? I get large grey space on the right side of any story that I read on a large-enough monitor.
[+] wtvanhest|12 years ago|reply
Honestly, their UI is so terrible I have decided not to even click on any more of their links. Its like they designed it to be user unfriendly.
[+] kryten|12 years ago|reply
At least you can read it. On a windows phone it just redirects to the start page and there is no link to the article.

Utter crock.

[+] saosebastiao|12 years ago|reply
It is better than Wired's mobile format...where they let you use the full screen to scroll, but as soon as you stop scrolling and start reading, they pop up their logo bar in front of the text you are reading.