There is no "revolving door" between the industry and NSA, or really between the industry and any part of the USG. This is something you've made up.

I actually work in this space, and yes it is often the case that you find people on standards bodies with prior experience at major government IT contractors with classified gaps in their CVs, and/or former private sector people who rotate into those same government contracting positions. These also tend to be the people making more ... weird ... proposals that are likely backdoors.

Point to one of such proposal, and we'll look at the resume.

Besides, just rejecting all of their advice makes you as easy to manipulate as following all of their advice.

The alternative is ignore, not reject.

That’s a good point, true.

I like to mention how the NSA is funded by government debt in the current debt-based economy. Which basically means that the more it spends, the more dollars gets printed.