Over a decade of military and then offensive CNE work, a quick tour around the private sector and then a decade of leading Chrome. I guess Chrome had a ton of security issues early on? I can't really think why they'd pick someone like this for directing Chrome and not Chrome security specifically. Even picking him for his contacts doesn't make sense - it's a free product, not much in the way of government contracts to land. And from a "mole" perspective, it'd make more sense to go to Project Zero anyway.
Also, genuine question: isn't it hard to go private sector if most of your resume is redacted? How do you convince employers that you're talented?
A lot of the time (most of the time), you end up in a particular specialty by career accident, not because you're genuinely excellent at that and only that, and not good at related adjacent things.
There are some who work for those organizations that care passionately about civil liberties and work hard to preserve them while still carrying out necessary functions of government.
"Necessary functions" like causing the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, installing dictatorships, training people behind such lovely ideas as "rape dogs", leading to Osama Bin Laden, snooping on everyone while failing to stop attacks they were outright told about.
You have 2 types of people in the any DoD.
0) the peons who do what they are told.
1) the ones who are bright, know the deal, speak when spoken too, and generally play their role.
2) the ones who are protecting their patch with a bunch of bureaucracy.
Those people who care about civil liberties belong in to (1). They unfortunately, have no real say. And when push comes to shove, (2) owns (1, 0) in every shape and form. At best, (1) goes and takes job with a contractor.
Either way, just because you leave your job, doesnt mean you have left your job. If your a (2), u have a network of resources at your disposal. And sometimes, its calculated.
A (2) will always be a (2). Even in retirement. Even if they take a new job. Their network will remain.
As for me, I'll use Firefox.