>You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance.

Having had to go through one of those: yeah no shit. Not everyone enjoys a colonoscopy without anesthesia.

>You (even programmers!) have to touch the things we build in order to build them and nobody has an ISO certified clean room in their house.

I do, a keg at any rate, but given that I can't get a security clearance because of the people I hung out to build one - yeah.