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The story I hear is that NSA doesn't pay enough. So one path for people is to quit then work for one of the military contractors which then end up doing contrac

• pm90 7y ago
  > But maybe that is unrelated since if he would still ex-filtrate data even if he worked directly for NSA. This is something that's not really clear. There will always be leakers, but being part of an organization becomes part of many people's identities. The success of the organization then becomes a much more personal effort, which would likely discourage people from taking actions that might hurt it. My point being: contractors may not have the same sense of ownership or belonging-ness that employees do. I will freely admit that this is an untested hypothesis though.
  • rdtsc 7y ago
    > My point being: contractors may not have the same sense of ownership or belonging-ness that employees do That's fair. I do see someone directly working for NSA maybe being more devoted to their country. Though I imagine it must be hard when they know their previous co-workers, who now moved to Booz Allen are making 2x working on the same projects.