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Having the person doing the repairs be in the military or some contractor working for a company makes no difference security wise. They'd still need access to the same secrets.

Besides, most of this is non-secret. They're dealing with the same issues with ordinary consumer goods that everyone else is.





Contractors defend this by pointing out that service members tend to retire and get jobs at competing firms.

The problem is they’re saying “we don’t trust the military with our secrets.”

I’ve seen this attitude at many firms. Keep things so secret even the clients/regulators don’t know what’s going on.

There’s a huge cultural lack of openness, which strongly contrasts with our history of free inquiry.




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