Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tilt.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!tilt!chenr From: chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: background investigations Message-ID: <225@tilt.FUN> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 17:42:45 EST Article-I.D.: tilt.225 Posted: Sun Jan 13 17:42:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:10:27 EST References: <6958@brl-tgr.UUCP> <6200039@uokvax.UUCP> Organization: Princeton University EECS Dept Lines: 28 Groan... If you move from one site to another, provided that the site your moving to is a "secure facility" and is authorized to hold clearances of your level/type, the clearance can follow you around, be it a Confidential or a Top Secret Pick-your-favorite-classification. The actual procedure is a little complicated. You get debriefed at your old site, your clearance gets deactivated, the security officers of both sites get together, magic mumbling occurs, your clearance credentials get transferred, and your clearance gets reactivated at your new site. It's a bit of hassle, but it's nothing major. Also, you don't have to move directly from one job/site to another. There's a time period during which your clearance can be reactivated with a miminal amount of hassle (assuming no unusual circumstances, like a treason conviction or something). If memory serves me, I believe that the time period is one year. After that, your clearance turns into a proverbial midnight pumpkin and you have to get cleared again the hard way. As a final note, remember that clearance doesn't imply access. Information is still handed out on a "need-to-know" basis (don't you just love cloak+dagger games). If you don't need to know, it doesn't matter what your clearance is. You won't (or shouldn't :-) find out. (In case of further responses, is there another newsgroup for this stuff? Discussing this in unix-wizards seems a bit silly.) Ray Chen princeton!tilt!chenr