This is a big "fuck you, we can do whatever we want" message to everyone using AWS who cares about customer privacy.
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
#92There will come a time when, as a society, we will have to ditch Amazon, and come up with alternatives to regular online retail. I just hope technology and IT evolves so that online retail is decentralized.
I've moved most of my online shopping over to Walmart so I can support the little guy
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#93How can an ostensibly consumer and business targeted company company allow someone so anti-consumer on the board? Why doesn't anyone have the balls to say "this guy shouldn't be on our board because if we have someone in cahoots with the spooks on our board people will buy less dragon dildos and .223 fuel filters and the sketchy SAAS providers will use less AWS for their crap because their customers will be worried a…
What does he bring to the table that makes this something you'd want to do any ways? Is it a reward for something he's done in the past?
IC + DoD connections, which is an area where Amazon is trying to make inroads
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
The government created Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo I have no evidence other than the sheer obviousness of it, but the ties still continue to this day. I have no doubt it is kept hidden from most employees due to the general political leanings of most Valley engineers. For instance, my work does a ton of work for the DoE and you hear them mentioned all the time. The DoD is also a custom…
Google bought Keyhole (now Google Maps) from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC firm [1] -- this was when Eric Schmidt was CEO. Maps was caught wardriving [2] with Google Streetview, linking Wifi access point names to physical locations early on. After getting caught, they settled for $13 Million last year. Now Google Maps and even location services on all Android devices uses wifi scanning and bluetooth scanning as part of loca…
Allegedly, Schmidt also games politics, albeit unsuccessfully, he spent millions on The Groundwork trying to prop up Hillary's 2016 campaign only charging them ~$700k (at one point they had 70 SWE/SRE on staff with most focusing on her campaign's needs for an entire year, they were only a couple blocks away in NYC from Hillary HQ). The company he invested in, Timshel, folded the same year as Hillary lost the election. I'd bet anyone money he wrote off his illegal in-kind contributions as 1099 losses. Check out his emails with Robby Mook.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
The government created Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo I have no evidence other than the sheer obviousness of it, but the ties still continue to this day. I have no doubt it is kept hidden from most employees due to the general political leanings of most Valley engineers. For instance, my work does a ton of work for the DoE and you hear them mentioned all the time. The DoD is also a custom…
Google bought Keyhole (now Google Maps) from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC firm [1] -- this was when Eric Schmidt was CEO. Maps was caught wardriving [2] with Google Streetview, linking Wifi access point names to physical locations early on. After getting caught, they settled for $13 Million last year. Now Google Maps and even location services on all Android devices uses wifi scanning and bluetooth scanning as part of loca…
Regarding [2], the sensationalized, alarmist way the media reported this was not remotely accurate, nor would the conspiracy theory angle on this story make any practical sense.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
This: This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now At some point we need to just say it some of the largest tech companies are basically NSA+CIA partners and we're well on our way to having Big Tech completely integrated into NSA and CIA and DoD
All these 3-letter acronyms exists to further American interests - for a long time that was primarily the military/industrial complex followed by oil/gas. We're now just seeing the focus switch to supporting big tech as a priority.
United Fruit.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#97> 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…
This: This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now At some point we need to just say it some of the largest tech companies are basically NSA+CIA partners and we're well on our way to having Big Tech completely integrated into NSA and CIA and DoD
Out with the old, they’ll never coerce Mileva or Albert. With the advent of hashless trees in stateless epoch-quiescent petri nets, the stores are only exposed to the primary key holder and it would be almsosy impossible, unfeasible, and cumbersome to hash brown it, prune it, collate the byte stings...it would be less than above average intelligence
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
#98Whoever 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.
No, it won't matter. Any bad press from this will absolutely not adversely affect their brand enough to move the needle.
Re: Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
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Well, the majority still aren't buying. The initial assertion was "in every home", which is false in the majority of homes.
> Well, the majority still aren't buying. The initial assertion was "in every home", which is false in the majority of homes. Are we assuming that all the individuals who purchased the devices live completely alone? There are only 128 million households in the US. [0] [0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-househo...
You cannot imply this, the stats is about US adult, many adult may also have the same speaker in their household.
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That is an assertion with no evidence. Either is possible.
While either is possible, your response reminds me of Russell's teapot because it's just as possible that Bezos eats dirt. Without being able to falsify the claim, and by deferring to a claim that isn't the simplest possible explanation (he's got nothing), it makes me wonder whether other HN commentators will come to defend my "Bezos is a dirtmonger" conspiracy theory as well.
Oh god silly semantic games? really? Of course Bezos eats dirt because it's reasonable to assume without evidence to the contrary that Bezos eats food. It's reasonable to assume without evidence to the contrary that Bezos' food is no cleaner than yours and will contain some dirt.
Do we feel better about that now?
It's not reasonable to assume anything about the Intel Bezos has without evidence. Could be none. Could have hard evidence of crimes of the president and many senior politicians and public servants. Could be something in between those two. All are possible and there is no reason to discount any of it in the absence of evidence.
Good on you sticking up for the world's richest man who just hired a criminal though. It's important to maintian principle regardless of the optics.