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There would certainly be another Snowden for such an effort.

There was no Snowden on the Manhattan Project. That was a far bigger effort with maybe 100 or 1000 times more participants.

Programmers get the gift of sovereign status, with all the survival advantages that implies, leakers don't even get a memorial bike rack.

As a former cult member, I know the control The Big Promise has over one's thoughts and actions.

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There was no Snowden on the Manhattan Project. That was a far bigger effort with maybe 100 or 1000 times more participants.

Well, leaving aside Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, remember this was during WWII, where at a minimum, 98% of those participating were in agreement.

In this present kind of endeavor, you'd probably have at least 25 to 40% opposed.