I don't think your comparison is apt. Mudge isn't some loose cannon. He worked for the US government as a program manager for DARPA from 2010-2013, then for Google from 2013-2020. You think he looks "corporate" now, just look at his government portrait on his Wikipedia page from a decade ago.
Point being, Mudge is a very well respected cyber security professional, not some "hippy hacker" from years past. Which makes me even more willing to give his accusations weight, because this is not a case of someone who doesn't "get" corporate environments.
I didn't mean that he was a "hippy hacker." Maybe you misinterpreted that, from my story (BTW: Ken Kesey was no slouch, either). My apologies for being unclear.
But he has definite history of being quite willing to speak truth to power. Not having had any personal interactions with him, I can only go on the [many] stories I've heard.
It looks like you're reading several things into GP's comment that he did not write. At least I read it completely differently. I.e. that perhaps Mudge's alleged failure was "not playing ball" regardless of what the particular game might have been in that corporate environment, at that particular time, under/beside those particular execs.
Point being, Mudge is a very well respected cyber security professional, not some "hippy hacker" from years past. Which makes me even more willing to give his accusations weight, because this is not a case of someone who doesn't "get" corporate environments.