[brenden2]

I respectfully doubt many talented folks are giving up $500k+/year jobs to work for Uncle Sam at below market rates.

[atonse]

No it's the opposite. A lot of people getting $500k were trained by Uncle Sam and left.

My point was that you can't say the government would mess it up when the government (really, many governments as I outlined above) has done a phenomenal job of training many of our best private sector hackers.

[chimeracoder]

> My point was that you can't say the government would mess it up when the government (really, many governments as I outlined above) has done a phenomenal job of training many of our best private sector hackers.

That's very different from saying that the government's core competencies include developing and operating secure consumer-facing web services that are also convenient to use.

There's a very big difference between having the raw resources and actually executing.

[atonse]

I forgot to mention another point that someone else mentioned (and I added to).

I live in the DC area. If you think that your average government contractor would do a much better job, you'd be shocked.