[samstave]

Some time ago I met some people from the .gov cyber security, NSA and other offices. The head of the .gov office on cyber security was really nice and invited me to go to dinner with them.

The guy from the NSA was hands down the biggest evil piece of shit I have ever experienced in my life. The way he talked, what he said, and the fact that he was given free reign to commit crimes in his training, which he openly bragged about, made me want to murder the guy right then and there.

I lost any and all respect for what the government and the NSA do.

[awj]

...because of one guy, who may have been lying through his teeth in an attempt to impress the other people at dinner?

I'm not trying to defend this guy, certainly it's a big problem if he did what he said, but you can't fix something when you paint the whole fucking thing with a brush you picked up looking at one of the uglier parts.

[aedocw]

Though I'm not defending the NSA, you should be careful not to make broad assumptions based on a single data point.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/