You have to wear clothes to "fit in" with the crowd. It is like camouflaging to your environment: "Sometimes you guys get a bad rap," Alexander said. "From my perspective, what you're doing to figure out vulnerabilities in systems" is great."

It is great because we need to recruit hackers like you to join NSA and find vulnerabilities to gather "intelligence" on everyone!

>The country also needs better sharing between private companies and the government, something that proposed cybersecurity legislation can help fix

Translation: We need to "fix the sharing of data" by forcing private companies, namely, Google, Apple, Facebook, Verizon and Microsoft to hand over all their data on users through legal means.

Ahhhh, a subliminal message, to seed the idea the the EFF is puppet of the NSA too.

Spooky...

I'm sure some of them understand the irony but they have to (blindly) obey to authority.

see related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment