What part isn't true? I didn't claim that it would satisfy everyone, just that it might come in handy for some people. Having done this myself, I can confirm that the set of people that I claim exist is in fact non-empty.
I usually end up using podbay.fm for finding rss feeds for shows which don't list them on their web pages (or anywhere else). https://podbay.fm/p/software-unscripted
In the distant future, I hope to also develop a version for iOS. But for now, due to this being a part-time effort, I have to focus on a single platform. I've also outlined some of my reasonings here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/markdown-layer-on-top-of-pdf/122...
You used to not be able to get a security clearance if you were a homosexual because you could be blackmailed. That's stricture has been dropped and that specific thing is no longer an issue mostly.
Is it still an issue if you are married/carrying on like a heterosexual family and your homosexuality is a secret? That was the important part of your clearance eligibility before: that someone can get leverage on you.
Likely the homosexuality has changed because society's view towards it has changed.
>> It can be an issue if the person's family is unaware of it and they are actively engaging in extramartial relations.
That would be situational. It sounds like the old rule was that just being gay was a show stopper. What you describe has little to do with sexuality and everything to do with extramarital activity which could offer leverage to straight people too.
More broadly, it sounds to me like the general principle is "are you engaging in some activity which is a shameful secret for you, and which could thus be used to gain leverage over you by threatening to expose that secret?"
Part of the problem is that it sounds like there were baked-in "hard-checks" about things that were automatically assumed to be shameful secrets that could be used for leverage.
It comes down to never lie about anything when you are being interviewed for a clearance. They will always find out. If you hide things, then you could be blackmailed as you where unwilling to admit to them in the interview. Yes, there where hard checks based on social normals at the time. Being gay used to be an issue, as wrong as that was. But at the same time, drugs, being a drunk, hitting your wife (prone to violence) etc. were also items on the list. Anything that could cause public embarrassment that you could sell out to avoid.
