It's so frustrating when you are looking for posts to secure your browser or mobile and it's filled with comments like "Le gubberment bad". Or how not platforming Nazis is "1984 censorship george orwell"! I mean, from a Marxist point of view, distrusting the US government is good but the reasons that these rats give for their actions is infuriating to read.
The only way to realistically to get a job in cyber security is via federal contracting. The only other option is being a legit superstar and having enough love of the work that you can create value via bug bounties and audits by just doing you.
So you either have a proof of concept of meritocracy(so good at your shit, companies will suck you off for you to join), or an okay engineer forced into a heavy culture of "stopping the bad guys" and "making positive change in the world" by, ya know, doing sketchy secret technically illegal things.
Tons of these guys are also veterans who were the guys blowing dust out of routers in some bumfuck desert FOB then got a degree with the GI bill and can make big bucks in a similar culture by leveraging a veteran status to get their foot in the door at a contractor. Even if they were just in chair force and spent several months obsessively masturbating to anime somewhere in Qatar doing basically private security for a guy with a solid gold Lamborghini.
The ultimate irony is the distrust for big government while grinding the gears that run the anti-privacy machine.
For people who just browse the subreddits, who fuckin knows.