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I mean, getting an actual government agency with an appropriate mission specified by law _would_ help. Both from a recruiting point of view (you get sufficiently ideologically motivated people), but also from an accountability point of view. These agencies are ultimately responsible to someone. And the law has that nice property of knowing who and how to hurt those people. So yeah. Getting a (or the) government to maintain OSS infrastructure definitely would help. And probably also prevent this kind of thing as far, far too risky to attempt



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