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You might want to have a look at the HOPE9 keynote with one of the first NSA leakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFtQ6n3WR4

Clearly a very smart guy, that went very far in the NSA -- and for a long time felt he was doing "the right thing" -- but eventually quit because of what the NSA were doing.

edit: He also touches on how compartmentalization leads to people not knowing what they're actually working on/how it will be used in some cases.



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