On 13 September 2013 13:10, Adam Back <[email protected]> wrote: [snip]
> Psychopaths are a minority, and people on the top end of crypto/maths > skills > are sought after enough to easily move jobs even in a down market - so the > "must collect pay-check" argument seems unlikely. So I stand by my > argument > that they probably scored an own goal on the retention and motivation > front. I think for the majority of people - they wont like to go to work, > or will > feel demotivated, feeling the world is sneering at their employer as a > quasi-criminal org. > Listening into phone calls or reading emails in the name of "fighting terrorism" is likely to have a much lower moral barrier than, say, building cruise missiles or nuclear weapons that could potentially kill millions of people. Our respective governments managed to convince some very brilliant scientists to do the later, I'm sure they can do the former with significant ease - with or without the recent revelations.
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