[Cryptography] NSA seeing large exodus?

[Udhay Shankar N]

I have heard in a past discussion on this list that the NSA employs some
significant fraction of all people who have postgrad degrees in crypto
related topics in the US. Does this mean that the private sector now has a
significantly larger talent pool for security related jobs?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-nsas-top-talent-is-leaving-because-of-low-pay-and-battered-morale/2018/01/02/ff19f0c6-ec04-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html

The National Security Agency is losing its top talent at a worrisome rate
as highly skilled personnel, some disillusioned with the spy service’s
leadership and an unpopular reorganization, take higher-paying, more
flexible jobs in the private sector.

Since 2015, the NSA has lost several hundred hackers, engineers and data
scientists, according to current and former U.S. officials with knowledge
of the matter. The potential impact on national security is significant,
they said.

Headquartered at Fort Meade in Maryland, the NSA employs a civilian
workforce of about 21,000 there and is the largest producer of intelligence
among the nation’s 17 spy agencies. The people who have left were
responsible for collecting and analyzing the intelligence that goes into
the president’s daily briefing. Their work also included monitoring a broad
array of subjects including the Islamic State, Russian and North Korean
hackers, and analyzing the intentions of foreign governments, and they were
responsible for protecting the classified networks that carry such
sensitive information.

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