My first thought is that this limits your employee pool to people who will put up with that type of environment. I don't want to have to inform on my fellow employees' possibly-suspicious behavior, and I don't want to live with the possibility of being investigated because someone else reported something benign I did that triggered some kind of behavioral flag. My personal increased disinterest in working for an intelligence agency is not exactly going to hurt their applicant pools, but a general attitude shift could.
Ironically, this will just inform future leakers on how to effectively hide their behavior.
This is not unlike what happened with Jérôme Kerviel[0], the trader from Société Générale, who worked in compliance, learning all the ways in which the bank spots risky trader behavior and then used those lessons to hide his risky trades.
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[ 13.3 ms ] story [ 499 ms ] threadI'm actually interested to see how this plays out.
The only thing that is for sure is that the job won't get done if everybody is scheming and plotting against one another.
This is not unlike what happened with Jérôme Kerviel[0], the trader from Société Générale, who worked in compliance, learning all the ways in which the bank spots risky trader behavior and then used those lessons to hide his risky trades.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jérôme_Kerviel