A lesson they teach in $IVY_LEAGUE, "you all know whistle blowers don't end up well." Direct quote from $INFLUENTIAL_DUDE in response to $PUBLIC_THING.
Trust your gut. When it says leave, leave. Even if others encourage the opposite. Even if your extended family depends on your income.
Make the effort to build and maintain a strong social circle. Filter for integrity. Assiduously avoid those who distort truth for personal advantage.
When Jamie Dimon discussed the warm relationship between Obama officials and tech in a public speech at Stanford, I assumed it was (1) common knowledge and (2) socially acceptable to discuss in public.
I think the current administration has made excellent personnel choices in the regulatory agencies. I am hopeful for the future.
But I don't think I "called out" anyone. I understand that expression to mean "seeking to direct reflexive mob anger toward a specific individual". It's the practice that's troubling, not the people.
I actually believe that most of the people engaged in this practice (revolving door) have impeccable moral character.
How would you feel if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission soft-balled Mr. Burns, then one of its commissioners jumped ship to work at Springfield Nuclear?
Even if that commissioner was an enlightened patrician of high moral character, it would create the appearance of corruption. And that alone is corrosive to the rule of law.
People with less integrity, people downstream in industry, might interpret that as a signal that regulators are a joke. They may go on television and say things like "I don't respect the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
The recent Microsoft signed rootkit has specific requests for collecting CPU-ID. That says something about the state of device fingerprinting, but I'm not sure exactly what that is.
The burner model provides little security in North America. Big box retailers record device serial number to prevent return fraud. It is known that retailers sell transaction information. It is also known that retailers use facial recognition, wifi, app location data, and bluetooth beacons to identify customers, even customers who pay in cash.
It stands to reason that retailers link transaction information--including serial number--to unique individual identifiers. It is possible this data is traded.
It is depressing that people in Western democracies have to worry about authorship identification via printers the same way people in the DDR had to worry about authorship identification via typewriter. But here we are.