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On 09/12/2010 20:46, Dan wrote:
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<div>I don't think that's true. Sexual preferences have often
been used to blackmail people -- and, in terms of security,
has often been seen as a liability because someone might be
blackmailed. In other words, if you were gay and in the
closet, this might be seen as a way that foreign agents might
manipulate you -- even if you were not, say, on their side
ideologically, in their pay, or perhaps had a desire to change
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There is a fun passage in Charles Stross' "The Atrocity Archives"
mentioning that one of the gay housemates of the protagonist is
forced to participate in the pride parade in order to keep his
security clearance - if he is in the closet he is blackmailable, so
he must be as out of the closet as possible. <br>
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As for having a FBI file or something similar, my opinion is that
*not* having one is a sign of being either suspicious or
unimportant. What matters is whether the information will be
problematic to you or not. This is of course where the "if you have
nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is proven wrong, since
even entirely inoccuous and truthful information can be
misinterpreted out of context in bad ways. <br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</pre>
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