There are quite a few extremely talented security folks who are more or less the polar opposite, who view people like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange as heroes, the NSA as guilty of treason, as James Clapper as guilty of perjury, even inside of corporations like Microsoft.

The catch is, views like those must be kept to a fairly modest level by the people who hold them. Discussing them with ideologically aligned colleagues may be fine, but for example, when someone makes statements or asks questions with such pro-privacy framing on stage directly to security leadership at internal company conferences, that is a quick way to a severance package not only for the person on stage, but also for dozens of folks in the audience who clapped a little too enthusiastically at the onstage remarks.