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On the contrary, I wonder if we can trust the government firms to do so.Question that everybody has ignored is, can we trust private defense firms in India to keep confidential stuff confidential ?
No, seriously. What prevents a low paid sarkari babu from accepting a bribe from the ISI/Chinese/anyone else and compromise valuable information? What prevents competent hackers from hacking into poorly maintained and inefficiently implemented government servers?
A private company knows that even one mistake will ruin their company and they will make sure that this does not happen. The onus is on them.
In India, all the decades of licence Raj socialistic thinking have conditioned us to think that the government is benign and benevolent while private businessmen are untrustworthy. This is the way our minds have been conditioned.
I repeat: the US is as powerful as it is because of GE, Haliburton, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and so on. We will never become a powerful nation till we have our desi versions of these companies.