[Synaesthesia]

The NSA has had a long history recruiting elite cryptographers and keeping secrets from the public.

Given today’s prevailing attitudes towards China and Russia (ie Cold War 2.0),I’m not shocked.

[King-Aaron]

Hackers being involved with the government isn't what surprises me, moreso the consideration of bringing a draft back, after the public backlash from Vietnam. I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?

[krapp]

>I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?

Backlashes are cyclical and sometimes generational - the hippies against the beatniks, the yuppies against the hippies, etc. The current political and cultural zeitgeist in the US seems to be much further right and pro-war than it might have been 40 years ago.