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I respectfully doubt many talented folks are giving up $500k+/year jobs to work for Uncle Sam at below market rates.

No it's the opposite. A lot of people getting $500k were trained by Uncle Sam and left.

My point was that you can't say the government would mess it up when the government (really, many governments as I outlined above) has done a phenomenal job of training many of our best private sector hackers.

My point was that you can't say the government would mess it up when the government (really, many governments as I outlined above) has done a phenomenal job of training many of our best private sector hackers.

That's very different from saying that the government's core competencies include developing and operating secure consumer-facing web services that are also convenient to use.

There's a very big difference between having the raw resources and actually executing.

I forgot to mention another point that someone else mentioned (and I added to).

I live in the DC area. If you think that your average government contractor would do a much better job, you'd be shocked.

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