The FBI may have paid them, but the CrowdStrike team itself are all company men. It is a CIA operation through and through. I have actually brush shoulders with them a few times over the last decade or so... They are not part of the high tech crowd. They stick out like a turd in a punch bowl. It's like a 25 year old narc trying to pass himself off as a senior at the local high school where all of the students know each other already. The CrowdStrike boys dress in cheep black suits and carry themselves in a way that makes you suspect that they jerk off to MIB movie posters... but they carry the look poorly. They are spooks and I never unederstood they term 'glow in the dark' until I say a pack of them. They glow so conspicuously that they first time that i saw them from like 100 yards off I commented to my co-worker next to me "Huh, so I guess CrowdStrike is CIA?" and he was just like "yep, looks like it."