Comment by tmpz22

I think a better analogy would be high value data in high espionage environments like GPU trade secrets at TSMC or nuclear secrets, not military codes, but maybe knowledge about the production process. Individual tax payer data is well above the value of commercial data as it can be used in chain attacks to compromise much of our society.

Imagine working IT and having to train people that even when their jobs are directly threatened they are still supposed to withhold data, and then those same people are fired anyways for complying with security policy.

And people are gleeful that these people are losing their jobs.