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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Still silly, if they aren't confident to weed out Russian spies with Russian nationality, they are even less confident to weed out Russian spies with other nationalities. I would think that most undercover Russian spies don't have Russian nationality, because that is an obvious attribute, which is easy for a government secret agency to change.

There really is nothing better than background checks, and privilege separation for this kind of stuff.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah understandable, and I agree. They might have been in the process of getting a contract with a gov or similar large client that had a nationality requirement as part of the requirements too. I'm not trying to defend them though, just probing at other potential reasons for their move that may not be entirely visible from what they seem on the surface.