It's idiocy to think "outsiders" are needed in the first place. The CIA ACD FBI had multi decade breaches that cost the Soviets/Russia less than a couple millio

It's idiocy to think "outsiders" are needed in the first place. The CIA ACD FBI had multi decade breaches that cost the Soviets/Russia less than a couple million dollars. If FBI agents can be flipped for so little, it's silly to think the NSA cannot get detailed engineering plans and source code for every electronics product they desire. Not to mention they can always recruit people to work totally undercover in industry. Hire top performers, give them coaching or even sabotage rival colleagues. It certainly cannot cost more than a few million per agent to deeply infiltrate target companies. Hell, in their place, I'd be trying to get multiple people into MS, Intel, etc. to be in position to use root keys if needed.