"The people who work in IT in the U.S. tend to be quite suspicious of government," says Stewart Baker, a former general counsel at the NSA. "Maybe they think that they're so much smarter than governments that they'll be able to handle an attack on their own. But there's a standoffishness that makes it much harder to have that kind of easy confidence that you can call on people in an emergency and that they'll be respond."
That section made me laugh, seriously, it's not because they think they are smarter and better, they just don't want to deal with the gov and be told what to do.
Exactly. It's not any illusion of being 'better'. Some level of distrust is pretty rational, governments have their own agendas and those might not always be aligned with that of a multinational. And if multiple governments want to be involved in your IT infrastructure it could get pretty messy. You're inviting the "cyberwar" on your turf instead of keeping it out.
That section made me laugh, seriously, it's not because they think they are smarter and better, they just don't want to deal with the gov and be told what to do.