Just to clarify I&#x27;m talking about scientific research in the area of privacy&#x2F;crypto etc.<p>The argument would be &quot;this nation state is an evil eavesdropper thus I won&#x27;t work for it when my area of expertise is privacy&#x2F;crypto etc.&quot;. I think that&#x27;s taking it a bit too far because &quot;the state&quot; is pretty big and its sole purpose isn&#x27;t to eavesdrop (I&#x27;d hope) but I wouldn&#x27;t say that position is unreasonable.