| >how many of them took them up on the offer, and how many are in leadership roles? this is not really relevant to the point, but to satisfy your curiosity: more than one, and one. >it takes a very narrow range of personality to want to be a cop the nsa's brightest aren't doing "cop" things. certainly none of the people i know of working there are "cop-minded" in any sense. they are doing cool research and application things. otherwise they wouldn't be able to entice the phds to stick around. these are people that want to work at the forefront of their field, doing interesting work, and the nsa is one avenue of doing that (with good job security, benefits, etc.). >it's ridiculous to assume they have an iron grasp on all communication from the top tech companies in the world, while also monitoring half the world's governments we agree here. they are certainly doing "HNDL" (harvest now, decrypt later) at a very large scale. but obviously they are not able to collect and store every piece of communication at every tech company over years and years. (the intelligence community comprehensive national cybersecurity initiative data center is large, but not that large) |
What? That's not only relevant to the point, it's incredibly relevant. If the NSA is only able to recruit 2% of the math PhDs they approach, then that's important information.
"More than one" is not particularly useful; you seem to be dodging the question because it undermines your argument.