Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization (opens in new tab)

That's completely inaccurate. Booz Allen was a private company that split into public and private consulting firms. The private side owned a larger stake of the overall company than it was "worth" so to do the split the public side sold some stock and took on debt to makeq up the difference when they split. After a few years they became a public company but at no point did where they owned by Carlyle.

Here is a nice nugget: Carlyle also owns CRG West (which has since been sold/renamed) -- CRG West was one fo the bid Datacenter owners - and even at one point owned MAE West.

How do you think the NSA taps get in place?

http://coresite.com/data-center-locations.php

Those are major hub/ingress/egress points...

> I know someone who got a security clearance before even knowing what job he wanted

Your friend is bullshitting you. You don't get a security clearance for shits and giggles. Depending on the type it can be expensive to very expensive. And you don't apply for one directly, the company you work for applies for you.

This is why all the job sites have a security clearance jobs section. It's a pretty exclusive club and there are 2 ways to get in; join the military or get it through work.

I think the point is that anyone with the time and resources to see the clearance process through probably isn't interested in janitorial work. Consider the opportunity cost of all those interviews and forms.

However the point about how there might be national secrets in the wastebasket is moronic - that is want shredders and burnbags are for.