Indeed. Just imagine the fear of the next Snowden in the NSA, and trying to work out just how many past Snowdens they’ve had who took their secrets to the enemy rather than the public.
You’ve made my point clearly—and perhaps I didn’t make it clearly enough in my post. I was focusing not on a leak in itself, but on what suspicion can do to an organization. As I described it, the suspicion would “cast a shadow” and “hover over” the project.
At this point, NSA may well be looking for anyone who expressed hacker/cypherpunk/copyfighter sentiments. Not that these need to disqualify someone from serving in the NSA, but at this point, the NSA is probably pretty suspicious.
Indeed. Just imagine the fear of the next Snowden in the NSA, and trying to work out just how many past Snowdens they’ve had who took their secrets to the enemy rather than the public.
Yes, exactly.
You’ve made my point clearly—and perhaps I didn’t make it clearly enough in my post. I was focusing not on a leak in itself, but on what suspicion can do to an organization. As I described it, the suspicion would “cast a shadow” and “hover over” the project.
At this point, NSA may well be looking for anyone who expressed hacker/cypherpunk/copyfighter sentiments. Not that these need to disqualify someone from serving in the NSA, but at this point, the NSA is probably pretty suspicious.