[goalieca]

> (Or to me, unethical than working for the US government) I'd much rather create something that benefits the world.

I’ll be a little more nuanced. I’m very appreciate of the hard work nist does posting best practices and guidelines on privacy, zero-trust, crypto, and other things. The SP series of publications are well respected and do lift the entire industry up to some minimum standard. In some cases they actually move things forward by a lot (like the AES competition)