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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago

It markets itself to journalists, activists, and people in countries where being monitored by a government is a real risk. Its CIO had signed a deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ over his role in building surveillance infrastructure for a government targeting those same categories of people.

At least this one I can understand, the guy probably knows pretty well what to protect from, and also may have changed the opinion on if you should attack journalists or protect them

That would've been better disclosed at hiring time, not when someone found out, of course