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The NSA’s TAO (tailored access operations), the group that wrote Stuxnet and is known to the cybersecurity community as The Equation Group, is not known to work with outside contractors to develop malware. They’re more likely to collaborate with GCHQ and Israel’s Unit 8200, but not contractors. The NSA does some of the most advanced malware and vulnerability research internally, no contractor has the capabilities they do internally. They might buy some premade malware from contractors, but for a highly targeted piece of malware like Stuxnet it would be developed internally.

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The compartmentalization required for NSA TAO to interoperate with GCHQ or Israeli Unit 8200 or the French, Canadians, Germans, Australians etc, is the same as if they wanted to plug in code from some private network or PLC expert.

I'm not saying that they are going to subcontract out everything or the important things, but their advantage is being able to leverage private industry for specific knowledge and expertise.

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>no contractor has the capabilities they do internally. Thats where you are wrong! Capitalism enables the greatest number of (self/mon(k)ey token) motivated varieties, beit innovations, why do you think ESA just put out a request for idea's on the space suit to be used on the moon? The creativity of unrestricted thinking especially from kids, is massively untapped, they are natural operating-in-plain-site Dimenthyltryptamine users for a start, unconditioned by university's, culture and life in general!

Saying that though, working for govt in any form comes with its own risks. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:NSA_GCHQ_and_the_Death_... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6585263/Damning-new... https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Chelsea_Manning https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Julian_Assange

Sometimes being in the public spotlight is the less dangerous path, which these NSA jobs are not. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bill_Clinton

Accidents happen. Prison happens. Intelligence gathering comes in all shapes and sizes, but one thing is for certain, it was previously thought being on the right side of the law was a psychological advantage, its not any more, it could be extremely risky. This is the era of psychological warfare, and the best candidates are those who volunteer for their trauma as any Emergency Response (Police/Fire/Ambulance) person knows.

Psychological trauma is a life long condition with no visible scars.

How you survive working for the state largely depends on your own intelligence, but you can bet your bottom dollar you will be experimented in ways that science dictates that subjects are not too be made aware of any said experiment.