Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
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Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#2Well, the ad was right after all...
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#3Is this the first fruit Jeff is eating from his personal stay in Washington?
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#4Amazon does have devices listening in every home.
Is the concern here that hiring Keith Alexander would make it easier for government to get people's conversation data?
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#5Amazon does have devices listening in every home. Is the concern here that hiring Keith Alexander would make it easier for government to get people's conversation data?
> Amazon does have devices listening in every home.
No, they don’t. It’s a choice people make, and most aren’t buying Kindle, Echo or other near useless spying device like that.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#6Whoever is running Amazon's PR is either really good and has determined this won't matter, or is really really incompetent. Based on how the PR for HQ2 in NYC went, I'm suspecting the latter.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#7Whoever is running Amazon's PR is either really good and has determined this won't matter, or is really really incompetent. Based on how the PR for HQ2 in NYC went, I'm suspecting the latter.
Will it matter? The sheep (myself included) will still shop on Amazon.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#8> For those keeping score, not only does Amazon own the The Washington Post and oversees the CIA’s Commercial Cloud Enterprise, it now has on its powerful board of directors the most visible figure from the NSA who illegally spied on Americans for the better part of a decade.
This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now.
Man in a position to have reams of compromising intel on the current president hired by a man in an ongoing battle with the president.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#9Whoever is running Amazon's PR is either really good and has determined this won't matter, or is really really incompetent. Based on how the PR for HQ2 in NYC went, I'm suspecting the latter.
Will it matter? The sheep (myself included) will still shop on Amazon.
Its not like they have no competition- if people end up trusting walmart more than amazon we could see a shift happen. And again - HQ2. That was a huge miscalculation that resulted in actual problems for them - they're not able to get everything they want.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#10> For those keeping score, not only does Amazon own the The Washington Post and oversees the CIA’s Commercial Cloud Enterprise, it now has on its powerful board of directors the most visible figure from the NSA who illegally spied on Americans for the better part of a decade. This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now. Man in a position to have reams of compromising intel on the current presiden…
I think he got hired because AWS likes government and military contracts, and he has personal phone numbers of people who make that sort of decisions. And he doesn't have them through NSA data gathering, but because he can call these people and ask if they'd like to have a steak dinner and talk about why they should choose AWS...