[ianmiers]

I don't think tagging people as ex 8200 is very helpful. Israel has mandatory military service and at this point if you have aptitude or are in a high school computer club in Tel Aviv or a few other places, you probably end up in 8200 for your service. For that matter, half the people who say there were in 8200 were either 1) listening to telephone calls 2) relegated to writing memos about the data people did hack and get. Of course, there are things one could have done that would raise serious questions. See, e.g., the issues raised for the people we know who worked on DualEC_DRBG.

On the other hand, there are other sketchy things about express VPN.

[rStar]

it’s definitely relevant background.

[sib301]

FWIW, I once worked at NSA, and likely care more about privacy than anyone you know. These places employ 10s of thousands of people, and the people that come out are as varied as the industry at large.